Word: memo
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Memo to football fans: forget Super Bowl XXV in Tampa next Jan. 27. The real National Football League game of the year will be in San Francisco's Candlestick Park on Dec. 3, when the defending Super Bowl-champion 49ers collide with the New York Giants. When they met a year ago, the 49ers won 34-24; expectations about the battle to come have been climbing alongside the win-loss statistics of both teams, which have achieved historic heights...
Cambridge signed the memo to satisfy state and federal environmental protection agencies concerned about air pollution. It also signed the memo to reach an out-of-court settlement with a group of residents who were suing the city because it was allegedly violating a 1973 parking freeze...
...build. In 1954, when he was terminally ill, his unused dressing room came to the attention of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. "There was a shortage: James Cagney needed quarters for his current film. Consent to dismantle Lionel's suite, store his belongings and reassign the bungalow was granted in a memo of November 15." Lionel died that evening. Peters notes dryly, "MGM couldn't even wait for its most durable star to stop breathing." In old age Ethel lived in reduced circumstances. Katharine Hepburn recalled frequent visits to her longtime friend: "I never knew the number of the street she lived...
...echelons of corporate managers, fewer than one-half of 1% are female. Then there's the exhaustion factor. Women are far more likely to work a "double day" of career plus homemaking. The hand that rocks the cradle -- and cradles the phone, and sweeps the floor, and writes the memo and meets the deadline -- doesn't have time to reach out and save the world...
...memo infuriated Bush, but many Republicans followed Rollins' advice anyway. Those unlucky enough to merit a presidential visit have been putting as much distance as possible between themselves and the party leader. Last week, at a breakfast in Burlington, Vt., Representative Peter Smith ticked off his differences with Bush while the Commander in Chief sat nearby, determinedly mowing down a stack of pancakes. Later, at a fund-raising lunch in Manchester, N.H., for Representative Robert Smith, who is trying to graduate to the Senate, the candidate didn't bother to show up at all. One White House aide tried...