Word: welched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Collapse of Authoritarianism in Africa: Significant or Not?--with Professor Claude Welch of SUNY Buffalo. At 12:30 p.m. in Coolidge Hall room...
...their faces in the next day's papers. What led to NBC News president Larry Grossman's downfall? Auletta traces it partly to a disastrous dinner party that Grossman gave on the night of the sixth game of the Mets-Red Sox World Series. (General Electric chairman Jack Welch, a rabid Red Sox fan, wanted to watch the game.) Why did Dan Rather walk off the set in September 1987, leaving six minutes of dead airtime on the CBS Evening News? Auletta's second-by-second account is more sympathetic to Rather than many others. There are fresh nuggets...
Even more impressive are the intimate glimpses Auletta provides of the men at the very top and his nuanced picture of the different corporate cultures they fostered. Welch, the brusque, combative chairman of GE, which took over NBC in 1986, treated the network as another GE unit to be whipped into shape. (Why, Welch wondered, was there so much agonizing over layoffs at NBC when hundreds of people were getting axed at GE's turbines division? "You think they're happy?" he snapped.) Tisch, the Loews chairman who had never fired an employee before taking over...
...sport's new recreational players last year, forms of clubhouse discrimination vary. They may be denied membership or admitted only as associates of their husbands. They may be excluded from certain dining rooms and bars or get lower priority for desirable weekend- morning tee times. Last year Marcia Welch charged Pittsburgh's Wildwood Country Club with most of these indignities. The crowning insult was that the club, which she joined while married, told her to reapply and pay a new membership fee after her divorce. Even female pro players can be snubbed on the job until the tour's antibias...
Assists: D--Bowler 3, Paul Appleton, Heberling, Pence; H--Welch, Reilly, Maguire...