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Some claim the act of knuckle-bumping began in the 1970s with NBA players like Baltimore Bullets guard Fred Carter. Others claim the fist bump's national debut occurred off the court, citing the Wonder Twins, minor characters in the 1970s Hanna-Barbera superhero cartoon The Superfriends, who famously touched knuckles and cried "Wonder Twin powers, activate!' before morphing into animals or ice sculptures. One might also credit germaphobics for the fist bump's popularity. Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel reportedly adopted the gesture as a friendly way to avoid his contestants' germs...
...While private-sector initiative was the key ingredient in generating the pickup in productivity growth, government policy was constructive, in part through support of basic research but also to a substantial degree by promoting economic competition. Beginning in the late 1970s, the federal government deregulated a number of key industries, including air travel, trucking, telecommunications, and energy. The resulting increase in competition promoted cost reductions and innovation, leading in turn to new products and industries. It is difficult to imagine that we would have online retailing today if the transportation and telecommunications industries had not been deregulated. In addition...
...Blanchard, Olivier J., and Jordi Gali (2007). "The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks: Why Are the 2000s So Different from the 1970s?" Leaving the Board NBER Working Paper 13368. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, September...
...evolution of the undergraduate program of general education has reflected and intensified this expansion of curiosity and knowledge. The postwar Red Book was profoundly and proudly “Western,” and emphasized the humanities more than the sciences. The Core, set up in the 1970s, asserted that it focused on different modes of thinking (something on which a divided faculty could agree), but it also introduced Harvard undergraduates to different cultures, to ethical reasoning, and to more scientific knowledge. The new general education program adopted last year (in a country in which anything that is 30 years...
...Their promotions point to an increase in hiring from within. Over the course of several decades, FAS has moved from almost exclusively promoting from outside in the 1970s and 1980s to a system that appears more open to internal candidates...