Word: sponsors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also pursued by businessmen. Though they still extol free enterprise's virtues in after-dinner speeches, American capitalists can often be the system's most dangerous opponents. Rather than embracing the marketplace and competition, many businessmen look longingly to those societies, notably Japan, in which the government intervenes to sponsor, subsidize or otherwise ease the way for business...
Thirty Seconds is Michael Arlen's close-up pan and dissolve of the people who package desire and fulfillment into half-minute television commercials. As the book suggests, these subplots of our viewing lives are frequently more skillfully made and better remembered than the programs they sponsor. Moreover, the relationships between commercials and fairy tales are too strong to ignore. Princes and Princesses Charming, sturdy folk and innocent children are besieged by malicious forces. Tooth imps and underarm pixies generate embarrassing vapors; gremlins leave grimy stigmata on clothing, and devilkins foul points and plugs. Inevitably, the hapless are rescued...
Kemp, a possible Reagan vice presidential nominee, is the sponsor of the Kemp-Roth bill, which would cut federal income taxes by 30% over three years, and possibly that is what inspires Reagan to talk repeatedly of a 30% Kennedy tax cut. In actual fact, Kennedy in 1963 only asked for an 18% tax cut, and Congress authorized...
...issue: the 236,000 dependents of American soldiers and airmen in Europe, most of whom live in West Germany. In an effort to curtail the number of dependents overseas, Congress has imposed a ceiling on the number the military can sponsor. The congressional scheme would not affect cost of living differentials, PX privileges and other routine fringe benefits given to all overseas personnel. Rather, it would sharply curtail the number eligible for family transportation and resettlement allowances. As a result, many servicemenespecially among lower rankswould find they simply could no longer afford to bring their dependents...
However, what undergraduate women may not have realized, and must tell President Horner before it is too late, is that the existence of the Radcliffe Forum, as an institutional sponsor of the most excellent programs for women I have ever heard of validates the study of issues concerning women here at Harvard. The programs which bring so many excellent women here provide the knowledge and interest which causes spillovers into curricula, teacher attitudes, and pushes for change which Harvard needs. The chance to think about and discuss alternate approachs to current intellectual and social issues allows women the opportunity...