Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the years the library has quietly increased its collection with a strong sense of purpose unrewarded by large numbers of library users. With the recent advent of women's studies' relative respectability, the Schlesinger has finally come into...
...ADVENT OF fission technology has vastly increased man's self-destructive potential, and has emphasized the imminence of holocaust. In addition to all the problems of industrial waste management and disposal, we are now faced with a more powerful threat--that of radiation poisoning...
...WITH THE ADVENT of giant newspaper chains owned by public corporations, there is a chance for more freedom for editorial boards from the shackles of the money-makers. The chains work on the basic premise that the greater the extent of the division of labor in the newspaper business, the more efficient production becomes. Consequently, this specialization decreases the contact between the business and the editorial employees, allowing the latter more freedom. The corporate leaders of these chains have so far been relatively content to let the editor have the final say on all news and editorial matters, while...
...Jeff Walker, whose life-style could qualify for federal disaster relief. Others, like Michael Murphey, started in Austin but moved on to other locales. Now living in Evergreen, Colo., Murphey has a cooler sound than many of the progressives and writes lyrics about themes like urban sprawl and the advent of fast-food chains where the Cavalry once rode. Still others, like Waylon Jennings, the only member of the movement to share superstar status with Willie, never lived in Austin at all. Jennings comes by his affinity through his outlaw tendencies and through his capacity to make honest and appealing...
...stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponser shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...