Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...composition of Berkeley's student body went from about 90 percent white in the mid-1960s to about 45 percent white today. At Berkeley, Duster explains, diversity is an extremely loaded term. "It's an actual demographic issue," he says. "It wasn't just a buzzword...
...1950s and 1960s we did have a very good source in the American mission in West Berlin -- a German in the political section. So I don't want to present a picture of us being completely harmless. But except for this, I believe I do not merit praise for our work...
...1960s began, Farrar Straus & Giroux announced the imminent appearance of Harold Brodkey's first novel. In the late 1970s Knopf announced the imminent appearance of Harold Brodkey's first novel. This year Farrar Straus again announced the imminent appearance of Harold Brodkey's first novel. By now readers could hardly be blamed for wondering if the book was the Great Pumpkin of American literature...
Nowhere has massive, sudden growth struck more dramatically than Orange County. Robert Haskill, 39, a Newport Beach insurance man who is a fourth- generation resident of the county, still remembers how his grandfather lost his orchard to a freeway in 1960 and how, even in the late 1960s, fields of sugar beets and lima beans and perfumed orange groves stretched along Route 55 from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa. That arcadian vision lasted until nearly 1970. Then, in just 20 years, Orange County grew by nearly 1 million people as 90,000 acres were transformed into commercial "edge cities," freeways...
...early 1960s, 50,000 babies a year died because they were born without a chemical substance necessary for proper lung function. Today, thanks to one Harvard researcher, such infants' chances for survival have more than doubled...