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Sensing the time was right to launch her singing career, Toomer seized the moment and jetted to Paris over Spring Break to try her luck at the nightclubs. She auditioned at a different club each night and lined up "tentative jobs" with those she impressed...
...gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...
...series, the Arnolds claim CBS has committed to a fall launch and a 22-episode order. But as of Friday, a CBS spokesman insisted, "Nothing has been confirmed," and insiders say the show may be put off until midseason. "It's a great opportunity," said CBS broadcast president Howard Stringer of Arnold's new show, "if it comes...
Kessler is likely to approve BGH for commercial use, but he will find himself under pressure to defend the decision to a fearful and skeptical public. Rifkin promises to make things as difficult as possible. He is set to launch a yearlong anti-BGH campaign that includes full-page newspaper ads, 30- second TV and radio spots, and a grass-roots boycott of companies that continue to use the hormone. "We've got a short list of potential targets," he declared before a packed hearing room last week. "Kraft, are you here? Safeway, are you here? Land-O-Lakes...
This year Stith's group plans to launch a national campaign to improve black economic literacy. Through neighborhood classes and seminars, the effort would teach such skills as obtaining credit, shopping for interest rates and building equity. It would also teach historically bank-wary blacks, who often pay as much as 20% of the face value of checks to cash them at check-cashing outlets, how to use banks. "We need to learn how to use our money more wisely," says Stith. "We've got to begin to think with an economic mind...