Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson did not say, as Brutus notes, that "the demand for an Afro Studies department came after the strike of '69." The sentence in the article reads that the department was "created in the aftermath of the Harvard strike of 1969." The article notes that the Rosovsky committee had been working on developing Afro-American Studies considerably before the strike. The department itself was voted in after the strike in April...
Afro-American Studies' birth at Harvard was indeed painful. The department, created in the aftermath of the Harvard strike of 1969, can't seem to shake that era's legacy of tension, fear and bitterness. Even the Faculty vote establishing the department sparked a major controversy, for the body had committed the exceptionally rare action of disregarding a committee recommendation...
...With the aftermath of gas lines in California and on the East Coast, they have to come around. My own belief and my own hope is that if I can present the case to the public clearly, the Congress will...
...advanced nations are worried about the rise in oil prices, the LDCs and the world banking system have even more cause for concern. In the aftermath of the fourfold price rise of 1973, U.S. banks led the way in trying to "recycle" the dollars that flowed into the oil-producing states and were then invested in the West or parked for short periods in the major institutions of industrialized nations. Much of this money was loaned to the hard-pressed developing countries to help them pay their ever heavier oil bills. The international banking system came through that operation...
...easy enough to let the message of that time slip out of our minds. Most members of the current senior class were, after all, only in the sixth grade when then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered in the police; the memory of that day and its aftermath is for them, at best, a muddled one. And so it is convenient to believe those who proclaim that ours is a completely different generation of students, an apathetic and self-oriented one, a generation unconcerned with social protest or political issues. It is tempting to think that too much has changed...