Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last, feel completely comfortable at the helm. The problems that have beset that man in the past seasons are too numerous to delineate. But the period of adjustment has apparently ended, and it should not be very long before Harvard enjoys the national rankings it held in the early '70s. They almost got there this year...
...Harvard group, despite their perennial cry of "What am I doing here?" are freer. Some are married, two are divorced, one is gay. But underneath all that '70s liberation, we know that it is all the same. With or without a doctorate, it is shit and string beans...
What the teacher might have taught her class, had they been willing to listen, is that American education in the '70s is in deep trouble. And almost by definition, any problem with public education is a big one. No where are the difficulties more acute than in the 25,300 public high schools, junior and senior, in the U.S., which enroll 19 million stu dents and carry a million teachers on their payrolls. To maintain the U.S.'s vast public education establishment, from elementary schools to colleges, taxpayers will spend $144 billion this year ? a 152% increase over...
...construction and maintenance by making real estate an unprofitable business. Though landlords have not been declaring bankruptcy because of rent ceilings, a changed housing market has made their situation less desirable. Since the Federal Reserve Board tightened the money supply and drove up the lending rates in the early '70s, the homebuilding industry in Massachusetts has shriveled with only recent indications that it may be revived. The rent control board grants increases for repairs and inflation but Cambridge landlords are missing out on the windfall profits created by a tight market...
Journalists are acutely aware of one characteristic of the terrorist of the '70s: however small his numbers or narrow his cause, he commands attention. Our Bonn bureau, which provided much of the reporting for this week's cover stories on the international terrorism phenomenon, is a case in point...