Word: sponsors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast is a bit out of our league," said member Mark A. Gragg '91. "If we want to organize a protest, okay. But it's not the UC's role to sponsor an event personally...
...consumer big bang was detonated in 1982 with the advent of color TV, but really took off in 1984 when Doordarshan, the monopoly state television company, began allowing advertisers to sponsor shows. Over the next five years, the advertising revenues at Doordarshan jumped more than tenfold. Top- rated shows exposed tens of millions of slum dwellers and villagers, as well as civil servants and professionals, to the blandishments of housewives, models and children. A surge in foreign travel and the arrival of the video revolution further whetted appetites for consumer goods...
...Undergraduate Council's executive committee last night voted to ask the council to reconsider backing a concert by the British pop group Squeeze--only one week after the representative body rejected an offer to sponsor the show at a higher price...
...council's efforts to sponsor a concert may be thwarted by its inability to secure a location for the show, council officers said. The committee said that it will submit the second concert proposal to the entire council next Sunday only if members can arrange for a location to hold the event...
...later bucked the genteel Republicanism of Earl Warren. Morris demolishes the stereotype of Nixon as disembodied political gypsy. Nixon had roots in the same soil that produced the sagebrush rebellion. Morris also reconstructs the network of Nixon's early financial backers, including some of the millionaires who would later sponsor Reagan. After only six years in Congress, Nixon connected with a national following. Ultimately, it would unseat the mandarins who created the Eisenhower candidacy, those Eastern stalwarts who chose Nixon for the 1952 ticket because they needed the new sect's strength...