Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word, Harvard's quarterbacking spot--the key position in Crimson Coach Joe Restic's Multiflex offense--was green...
...Tisch operation is remarkably fat-free. Loews' Manhattan headquarters houses only 60 employees, less than .3% of the conglomerate's total work force. That spare staffing may enable Loews to move quickly when a good business opportunity is spotted. The chain of command is short, and word reaches the top quickly...
...Anchorman Dan Rather got word of the outcome just as he was finishing up the network's Evening News on Wednesday. The flustered Rather announced that CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman, 56, was "out." More startling was Rather's disclosure that Wyman's duties would be temporarily shared by William Paley, the network's legendary founder, who retired three years ago, and Laurence Tisch, the billionaire chairman of Loews Corp., who joined the CBS board only last October...
...Word of Wyman's departure quickly spread to a party on Manhattan's East Side. A nebula of CBS and other journalism luminaries had gathered on the day of the board meeting at the Park Avenue apartment of Designer Mollie Parnis to fete 60 Minutes Host Mike Wallace and his bride of 2 1/2 months, Mary Yates. The already festive mood brightened considerably as an old Wallace friend telephoned over the news. There is little love lost for Wyman in CBS journalism circles, where the ex-chairman's decisions have been a target for strident criticism. Partygoers vied to congratulate...
...people on whose arms these characters rode exchanged not a word...