Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Today, there's a considerable bond of trust between the faculty and the dean," Shepsle says. "Certainly it's a far cry from the 1960s when the faculty and administration often found themselves at odds, with each other...
Boyle began working for the Cambridge Police Department in the mid-1960s and served as superintendent under Anderson...
Under the influence of supply-side guru Jude Wanniski, Forbes argues on the stump that, as was the case between World War II and the late 1960s, "we must tie the value of the dollar to a fixed measure, such as gold, so that a dollar today will be worth a dollar tomorrow." He also argues that using the gold standard to fix the dollar's value vis-a-vis other currencies would boost world trade...
...continue to deteriorate. "We are holding some of this equipment together with bubble gum and baling wire," says Pete Acadeno, a technician at New York's terminal radar approach control. Such heavily trafficked air centers as New York and Chicago rely on the IBM 9020E, a mainframe computer of 1960s vintage. Unlike modern computers, with their tidy array of microchips, this dinosaur is stuffed with thousands and thousands of feet of wire. "The technicians tell us the wires are so brittle they sometimes break when you just touch them," says Mark Scholl, president of the Chicago Center controllers' union. Wanda...
...shenanigans and attendant publicity threw uncommon, and some would say unwelcome, light on one of publishing's oddest sidelines. The rise of the celebrity novel--of books that may or may not have been written by the famous names on the covers--can be traced back to the mid-1960s. Then, Jacqueline Susann and her husband-- press agent Irving Mansfield so relentlessly promoted her on TV and wherever else prospective readers could be buttonholed that Susann's novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) became a monster best seller. Other novels followed from her teeming pen, and they were successfully marketed...