Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founded in 1636, Harvard is unquestionably the oldest institution of higher education in America; and its endowment, about $1.4 billion, makes it still by far the richest (University of Texas is second, but it's all new money). As far as freedom goes, well, Eliot was speaking before the advent of experimental colleges where you can do whatever you want. The tremendous freedom still exists for faculty members but the rest of us would probably be a little less fettered elsewhere...
Americans have a longstanding affection for the people of Cuba. Our cultural and economic ties grew stronger throughout this century-until the advent of Communist rule. Obviously we would like to restore them [July...
...With the advent of the Kennedy Administration, the CIA plainly assumed that the new President would favor the enterprise against Castro. In February 1961 Bissell brought a new personality into the plan: a CIA officer named William K. Harvey. Long retired and living now in Indianapolis, Harvey was a pear-shaped fellow with a swinging stride. An intelligence officer of the direct-action school, he habitually carried a revolver in his belt...
...Isaac Newton's head: a ho-hum incident at the time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before the advent of Masters and Johnson, it is a fine instance of low-grade art that life so often shamelessly imitates...
Record Profit. Unfixed commissions had been resisted by much of Wall Street for years, and their May 1 advent had been ominously labeled "Mayday" (TIME, April 28). Yet Mayday came and went with few surprises. Some firms raised commissions to small investors. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the industry's leader, increased rates an average of 3% on orders of up to $5,000. But Blyth Eastman Dillon held commissions at present levels for small investors, trimmed them by 8% or more on larger deals for institutional clients. Bargain brokers popped up; one advertised commission cuts...