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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the case, initiated by the government in March, had set The Progressive back $150,000 in legal costs, "and the bills are still coming in. Financially, the effect has been catastrophic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Gives Up Efforts To Suppress H-Bomb Articles | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...United States' dependence on imported oil, most people would dismiss you as a "freak" from California or the Sierra Club. However, if you told that to the members of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, they'd most likely slap you on the back and welcome you to the club...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Sunshine at the B-School | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Thus, Parker's plan for the four-miler. Let Yale pull out ahead, keep them within range, grind back into the lead in the last mile. Parker, as always, had it figured...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: That Ol' Thames River Magic--Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...PROJECT CALCULATES the application of available solar technology could provide 7 to 23 per cent of the United States' energy needs by the year 2000. The Project is not referring to massive, multibillion dollar power stations in space which beam electricity back to earth via microwave (a NASA pet project). Rather, it is talking about solar houses and hot water heating, windmills, wood burning and hydraulic power. Modeste A. Maidique, assistant professor at the Business School, writes...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Sunshine at the B-School | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...back to whether the people have the sense of confidence that he can deal with the issues. I think that's a matter of deepening concern as we come to the 1980s," Kennedy said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Newspapers Show Kennedy Ahead in Polls | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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