Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLEAR RESULT of these policies is to discourage dissent and erode academic freedom. The B.U. administration argues that persons at other universities should not interfere with its internal problems, but to accept that reasoning is to turn one's back on the extraordinary and indisputable violations of the rights of students and professors...
...notion of coronary spasm dates back at least to the turn of the century. But there was no proof, and spasm remained simply a theory, overshadowed by mounting evidence that atherosclerotic disease was a major cause of cardiac attacks. Then, in 1970, doctors got "the first eyeball look at an episode of coronary spasm." At the University of California in Los Angeles, Cardiologist Albert Kattus and his team were doing a coronary bypass operation on a woman when suddenly one of the vessels began to constrict. As that happened, Kattus recalls, "we could feel that her coronary artery was tough...
Whether such lavish ceremonies really took place is uncertain. But unlike most of the Aztec, Maya and Inca treasures, which the Spaniards melted down and shipped back home in the form of ingots, many of the ancient gold objects of the Colombian Indians have survived. Protected by rugged terrain, dispersed over a wider area in many different tribal groupings, the Colombians avoided some of the worst depredations of the European invaders. They also buried their treasures in hidden tombs that escaped detection until recent times...
...check the half-million books that are supposed to be in its collection. In Fitchburg, Mass., library officials believe they could halt the loss of $8,000 worth of unreturned and stolen books each year by installing a $20,000 electronic detection system. The system would thus earn back its cost in fewer than three years, but the librarians have not been able to wangle the money from the city...
...turns up after running off to America with another woman during the war. "Memory is what ought to prevent you from buying a dog after the first dog dies," she reflects. "It should at least keep you from saying yes twice to the same person." But she takes him back...