Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kroks usually sing for profit--as often as two or three times a week during the school year, O'Halloran says. Alumni donations and revenue from these gigs are the 42-year-old group's sole sources of income--and the means by which it has toured each summer since the 1960s. Larsen says that the Kroks are so well-known from their tours that they get invitations to perform from the likes of the Austrian royal family, the American ambassador to Switzerland and the Japanese parliament...
...annual St. Patrick's Day brunch hosted by State Senate President William "Billy" Bulger of South Boston. Bulger is both the wit and intellect of Boston politics--quick to lampoon fellow politicians, and always ready with a quote from Virgil. While on the road campaigning for Dukakis this summer, Bulger regaled the press corps with jokes about the candidate: "He may not have charisma," Bulger explains, "but he does have anesthesia...
...awarded or given to faculty members, but that recruiters should be encouraged to lessen the importance of first year grades in their hiring process. In an effort to assist the General Affairs Committee, the student government body, in their implementation of the resolution, recruiters were informed over the summer of the new student referendum. The Faculty did not and were not asked to sanction the non-disclosure of grades as an official School policy as was stated in the article...
...Everyone is just deathly afraid of that [Columbia] game," said Harvard Coach Joe Restic, whose squad has opened its season against Columbia for 13 consecutive years. "It carries over into the summer. It spoils your summer...
Andrei Gromyko, 79. After formally nominating Gorbachev to be General Secretary three years ago, the longtime Foreign Minister was rewarded with the mostly honorary post of President. But having served six Soviet leaders over nearly 50 years, he was the ultimate holdover and came under public attack during last summer's party conference. Retired...