Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the talk gets too difficult, they protect themselves by glazing over. No one picks it up when Simone says, "My mom keeps telling me to go ahead and live with my father. She couldn't insult me more." When a new girl explains that she learned of "her" divorce when her father put a debt-disclaiming ad in the paper, they all chorus: "Oh." "Ugh." "Yuck." "But so typical." Julie says, "My mother had this man living in the house. I felt as if I was in the way. She would agree with him about things she would...
...latest nationwide Gallup survey and to an almost unbelievable 11% in Mervin Field's California Poll. The gasoline lines that seemed to be lessening in California began appearing in New York. A new round of Middle East oil price increases heralded still worse days ahead, both in the gas lines and for the nation as a whole (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
From all sides, the intertwined problems of inflation, recession and energy squeeze are closing in on the U.S. economy. Prices keep roaring ahead at a double-digit pace. Inflation-straitened consumers, who have long kept the economy rolling by spending above their means, are pulling back on their purse strings. So the longest, most sustained economic advance in U.S. peacetime history is rapidly coming to an end. As the nation heads toward its second energy-fueled recession in the past five years, the Carter Administration seems adrift and out of ideas for fighting back. Said a high Administration official...
...RADCLIFFE celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding this year, officials at the college stress that Radcliffe is a healthy and viable institution with a long future ahead of it. But in order to justify its continued existence--independent from Harvard--Radcliffe must, in the future, take a more active role as an effective advocate for undergraduate women...
...days ahead, when legislation to create a Cabinet-level Department of Education--H. R. 13778--is debated on the floor of the House, the long and uncertain history of the educational establishment may reach a watershed. Similar legislation--S. 991--moved quickly through the Senate earlier this year, eventually passing by an overwhelming 72-21 margin. In the House, the legislation leaped over its biggest obstacle last month, when it squeaked by the House Government Operations Committee on a 21-20 vote. Parker Cottington, spokesman for Harvard's Office of Government and Community Relations, which has gone on record against...