Word: backe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't as though Dartmouth pulled any tricks out of a great green bag either. "They ran outside a little bit to start the game, but I think that was a diversionary tactic because they came right back to running from tackle to tackle, which is what they do best," Sabetti said. "They didn't show us anything we didn't expect. From my point of view it wasn't the coaches fault...
...credit. "Until recently, many students and a certain number of faculty members were unaware of the program," Bowersock says. Robert J. Ginn Jr., director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, agrees and adds, "It's a lot easier now than it was ten years ago. Back then, it rarely happened at all." In the past five years, however, an average of 70 students have joined study abroad programs annually...
Nader shared the platform last night with Samuel Schwartz, senior vice-president of Continental Oil. Schwartz said, "Although cash earnings have tripled, so have the expenditures. All of this investment goes back into the field of energy...
...tool of economic journalism: magnificent hindsight." Last year, however, when reporting on the coming gold rush for TIME, Ungeheuer demonstrated the much rarer gift of economic foresight, predicting in January 1978 that gold would break the $200-an-ounce barrier later that year. Alas, says Ungeheuer, "I failed to back this premonition with any of my own money. I guess that's why I will always be a journalist...
Strobe Talbott's cynical Essay on "The Dilemma of Dealing with Dictators" [Sept. 24] clearly shows why we are so hated among the Third World nations. Talbott spends all his time telling us which despots we should back and which we should discard, according to our best interests. When a tyrant is no longer useful to us, we should invoke human rights. Only in the last two lines of his Essay does Talbott remember that the people in the distressed countries should have something to say about their own destiny...