Word: 1970s
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...1970s, when Jody and her rooming group were at Harvard, their school, like the rest of the country, was tired. The Sixties had been exhausting. They began conservatively enough, with 2,000 students gathered in front of Widener on a spring day in 1961 to register their displeasure at the abandonment of the handwritten Latin diploma. In April of 1969, protestors took over University Hall. Faculty members prowled the outside of Widener Library, protecting against fire-bombers. Someone wrote on a physics blackboard: “no class today, no ruling class tomorrow...
...loosely called "specialty coffee" accounts for $13.65 billion in sales, one-third of the $40 billion that Americans annually spend on coffee. Obviously, only a small fraction of that is from third wave coffee. But how big was the specialty sector when Starbucks got the ball rolling in the 1970s...
From a historical perspective this makes a great deal of sense. Consider that the top marginal rate peaked at 94% in the final years of World War II. It remained above 90% for most of the 1950s, and held steady at 70% during the 1970s. Republican Ronald Reagan emerged as the great tax buster, shaving the top bracket to a mere 28%. (During his presidency the rate in the bottom bracket increased by a point...
...China tigers. They surveyed eight reserves in seven provinces over 18 months, set up hundreds of camera traps and investigated reports of any sighting - but found none. It was the first documented case of a tiger subspecies disappearing from the wild since the Javan tiger did so in the 1970s. Western colleagues cautioned Tilson that his gloomy conclusion would irritate the SFA. "They were right," he says, laughing. "It really irritated them. I was pretty much shunned for almost two years...
While it is currently experiencing a resurgence at Harvard, the field of ethnic studies has existed since the protest era of the 1970s. For a long time, however, ethnic studies existed only on the fringes of a liberal arts education, criticized for its radical political connotations and its supposed lack of academic rigor...