Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called a special shareholders' session to vote on the reincorporation plan, and Pickens quickly denounced the scheme. Campaigning almost like presidential candidates, the two antagonists crisscrossed the U.S. to woo shareholders, particularly the big institutional investors that control a third of Gulf's stock. Money managers would see Pickens coming around one day and Lee the next. The two sides courted individual investors with full-page newspaper ads, topped by big headlines like YOUR CHOICE, YOUR VOICE, YOUR VOTE...
...failings of journalists have been compounded in the public's mind by the perception that as their power has increased, so has their presumption of selfimportance. Says William Woo, editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Arrogance, insensitivity, sensationalism, the sounding of First Amendment alarms at every provocation-these have all lost the press sympathy." Such attitudes are particularly grating to a large segment of the public that has come to see the press as primarily interested in its own profits and renown. "There is no longer a prevailing feeling that the press is righting to right...
RECOVERING. Ahn Ji Sook, 7, and Lee Kil Woo, 4, the South Korean children brought to the U.S. by President and Mrs. Reagan after their November Far East tour; from surgery to repair heart defects; in Roslyn, N.Y. The two were moved out of intensive care last week and should be healthy enough to return home before Christmas...
...standards, this commitment seems not to have borne fruit. Officials assert that they are up against new and more stringent barriers in their recruitment of minority and female candidates for tenured and managerial positions. They note that star-systems at other universities make minority and female candidates harder to woo, and point to career trends moving consistently away from education. Unfortunately, these problems have fostered a kind of complacency in many parts of the University with many officials feeling that the times justify a lack of effort. We do not doubt the University's good faith in affirmative action...
...Nancy thought one expression of America's friendship would be to help our two little Korean friends, Kil Woo Lee and Jt Sook Ahn, come over to the States," the president said...