Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans have grown inured to crass commercialism taken to excess, with corporate sponsorship profaning everything from bowl games to the Bill of Rights. But somehow Thanksgiving has resisted the blandishments of an age of avarice. How the greeting-card sharpies and the flower-power florists must lament a national holiday in which they are doomed to play such a minor role. For if one cares to send the very best, one flies home for Thanksgiving. Even the TV networks have never figured out a way to transform Thanksgiving into a prime-time pageant, which is why the Macy's Parade...
...basis of these logistical concerns, Associate Dean Cross called Ms. Murray the next day to inform her that we would be unable to approve her request. Issues regarding the potential controversy of the conference, additional security requirements, and institutional sponsorship were not factors in the decision. Our response was based solely on the suitability and availability of our facilities on that date. Ronald F. Thiemann Dean. Harvard Divinity School
Gomez, Santos and Salgar were among a group of Colombian journalists who were in New York City last week to discuss the battle between drug lords and reporters under the sponsorship of New York University and the International Press Institute. Their goal was to remind the world that their nation is, as El Tiempo said, "not a cave of thieves but the major victim of the international drug trade." Potent as their words were, more potent still was the harrowing image of Pulido cut down on his way home from an honest day's work in a land ravaged...
...experienced politician who does things in combinations." Another element in this combination may be a new press law under consideration by the Supreme Soviet. The measure, which has been welcomed by liberals, purports to abolish censorship and provides for creation of independent publications with none of the organizational sponsorship now required...
...disillusioned party member views state sponsorship of psychic and UFO studies as a new sort of official opiate. Says he: "They've been feeding us rubbish about the dream of Communism for years, and we now see they were lying. At least this gives us something new to dream about." So the next time aliens approach and ask for directions, point them toward Moscow. The Soviets need them more than ever...