Word: 70s
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...debate about physicals has been going on for more than 100 years. In the 1960s and 70s, two large randomized controlled trials were conducted, and both studies showed little positive impact - people who had physicals did not seem to live longer or have less illness than those who did not have physicals. ... Most patients in this country believe an annual physical is necessary, but there's little evidence to support that at this time...
...night. In the fall of 1966, James G. Maslach ’69 instituted the practice that Co-opers would prepare their own dinners in order to save money, a custom that lives on today. The Co-op began housing women by the early ’70s...
...sheet, chronicling the paper’s disapproval of Reagan’s supply-side economics and aggressive foreign policy. Meanwhile, the practice of Apartheid persisted in South Africa and spilled into Cambridge, raising questions of divestment and inciting a hunger strike. While the oil shortages of the 70s had faded away, some prescient observers realized that stability was a fleeting phenomenon. Less presciently, many thought that the days of Ted Kennedy’s prominence on the American political scene were over after his 1984 presidential bid went afoul. At the same time, death sentences continued to be passed...
...report concludes. It is not difficult to imagine the resulting escalation of international tension as countries scramble to obtain their energy needs. Nor is it hard to foresee the internal chaos another oil shortage will wreak on an unprepared nation. Soon the energy scare of the ‘70s may seem a mild prologue to the real crisis...
...ROMANTICIZING THE 70s...