Word: 1960s
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...undergraduate, Tai studied political science at Brandeis University, where she was the sole Vietnamese student during the anti-war protests of the late 1960s...
...1960s, fishermen adopted a more devastating technique called long-lining, which makes catching swordfish cheaper and quicker. Hundreds of baited hooks are attached to a line that stretches dozens of miles and is set horizontally above the continental shelf at a depth where swordfish congregate. Anything that bites usually gets hooked and often suffocates--mainly swordfish but also sharks, sea turtles and other marine species. Most worrisome is that much of the catch consists of small swordfish, averaging 90 lbs. At this size, females have not reached reproductive weight or age. In 1995 an estimated 58% of the Atlantic swordfish...
...other issues. That point is powerfully dramatized by the gathering of revolutionizing forces: television, the bringer of violence to the breakfast table; the start of the assassinations that would claim many of the book's antagonists; the spread of rights protest into the indulged yawps of the 1960s youth rebellion; and later, the furious dissent of the antiwar movement...
...student demonstrations of the late 1960s brought to an end meetings between Crimson executives, the University president and the Dean of the Faculty to confer on the content of the newspaper...
...early 1960s, the politics of the paperhad shifted from conservative to liberal. Nolonger did Crimson editors support the Republicanticket. John F. Kennedy '40 was a former Crimsoneditor, but his connection with the paper wastenuous at best. Still, the paper felt asentimental attachment to him, and in comparisonwith the other candidates, he seemed the onlylogical choice for President...