Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking a harder look at the risks, and some junk-bond buyers are becoming picky. While cash has poured in from such staid investors as the Harvard and Yale endowment funds and many state pension plans, other money managers are refusing to play. Says New York City comptroller Harrison Goldin, who oversees the investment of some $30 billion in pension funds: "I cannot condone activities that divert so much time and energy from investments that create new jobs and opportunities to those that reshuffle chairs. Pension-fund managers are supposed to invest in the American economy...
Carol Bowen, 46, ducks into the teachers' lounge at Harrison Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 8:40 a.m. for a quick gulp of coffee. Then she heads back to Room 208 to wait for her third-grade students, who have formed two lines outside the red brick building. This particular morning the girls' line enters first. As they file past, one child, Heidi, stops and shyly hands Bowen a slender envelope. Inside is a bookmark. Its inscription: "To my teacher: thank you for taking the time to share what you have learned...
Those words were President Grover Cleveland's coda after he narrowly lost the 1888 election to Benjamin Harrison on the issue of tariff reform. A century later, it is dismaying to contemplate the nation's march of progress toward the perfection of its democratic institutions. Imagine George Bush or Michael Dukakis having the temerity to claim that his campaign was waged on the battlefield of "honest principle." Or better yet, picture either candidate rising above "cowardly subterfuge...
...distorting the balance. Further, imagining the New Zealand-born Te Kanawa as an all-American Nellie Forbush was a greater suspension of disbelief than many listeners were willing to make. Yet My Fair Lady was solid and assured, even if Jeremy Irons did not erase the memory of Rex Harrison as | Henry Higgins. And Carousel, with songstress Barbara Cook and opera bass Samuel Ramey as the ill-fated lovers, was thrilling...
...addition to financial considerations, showorganizers are preparing for some of Cliff'sspecial requests. The show's rider--a documentwhich spells out terms not specified in theofficial contract--requires concert organizers toprovide Cliff and his crew of 20 to 30 people witha Jamaican meal before he takes the stage,Harrison said...