Word: 1970s
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...seems so long ago. But if you think very hard, you might remember multi-hour gas lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs, and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...
Last October, Cristina Fernandez, the Peronist senator hailed both as Argentina's "New Evita" and "The Latin Hillary" won the elections with 45% of the vote, easily outpacing the other 13 candidates. But now, old ghosts from Argentina's troubled 1970s and '80s - inflation, class conflict and the threat of coups - have returned. City streets and national highways have become the stage for the kind of unrest that seemed unthinkable when Cristina succeeded to the office vacated by her husband, outgoing President Nestor Kirchner, who instead of seeking a second term after one of the most succesful presidencies in Argentina...
...administrator close to the situation said that this case was neither the reason for the policy development nor the first incident of its kind, but it was unique in that the victim was willing to make her story heard. Before the 1970s, sexual harassment was not a widely-discussed topic, and thus no real Harvard policy was ever created...
...progress made during that time was long overdue—after all, the school had been minting black lawyers since 1869. By 1982, however, the situation had begun to deteriorate from the late 1970s...
...Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., a prominent civil rights scholar at the Law School who was a student there in the late 1970s, said that Harvard had begun to show “much progress” towards diversity during that period...