Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Bok in the aftermath of a Mass Hall takeover in 1972 over the University's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil--which had extensive holdings in the then-Portuguese colony of Angola--the ACSR had one opportunity this year to give a general opinion on corporate responsibility: its April response to a Securities and Exchange Commission ruling soliciting investors' opinions on amending present corporate disclosure regulations...
Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the 101-mile-long canal has been little more than a fortified ditch. The Israeli pullback into the Sinai in the aftermath of the October 1973 war still leaves it open to easy attack. But with both banks now under Egyptian control. President Anwar Sadat gambled that he could open it again. To underscore his seriousness, Sadat also approved a $10 billion five-year plan to rebuild the ruined cities along the canal's banks and construct new airports, rail lines and communications facilities in the area...
...products of the Good War generation. There are some who would say that Ted Kennedy was not in the war and not of the Class of '50 kind, but I think the very intense and personal involvement of all his family in the war and aftermath place him in the category of the last of the generation's by products...
...Heady Aftermath. Ford's trip comes at a time when he is still feeling the heady aftermath of public acclaim in the U.S. for the way in which he directed the military action that rescued the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez from the Cambodians. He made no mention of the incident during a speech at a Bicentennial celebration in Charlotte, N.C. But when members of the North Carolina congressional delegation praised the rescue, the keyed-up crowd of more than 50,000 cheered and whistled. Ford was also buoyed by the growing belief among liberals in Congress that...
...looked like the aftermath of a Three Stooges pie-throwing party. The sun was making headway against all the stickiness, washing it smooth with the pale glow of pink lemonade. You hardly notice skies around Cambridge: all spring means is that you pick your eyes up from the slush and mud puddles and occasional faces where they've rested all winter, and look at the trees now and then. But when you're on a ship in the South Atlantic the sky makes your whole world because it blends with the sea out there at infinity. You become...