Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a mandate for change. Worker riots in 1970 over increased food prices had toppled the Gomulka regime. The new government tried a policy of rapid economic development, heavily dependent upon Western technology and credits, to bring Poland out of economic stagnation. An international recession and a string of bad harvests led instead to an economic slump; and Gierek, like his predecessor, attempted to end artificial price controls in 1976. Workers took to the streets, and the regime backed down. With no solution in sight, Polish consumers now suffer from endemic shortages of meat. Necessary consumer goods like pins...
Most owners and trainers agree. Says John Veitch, trainer for the legendary Calumet Farms: "A number of horses over the past 30 years or so have had a chance to win the Triple Crown, but they've had bad luck and broken down before they had a shot...
Playing their home schedule at B.U.'s vacuum-packed Walter Brown Arena, the Crimson finished 7-18-1 overall and 1-8-1 in the Ivies, both Harvard records for ineptitude. Bad play was spread evenly among an offense that couldn't produce (especially on the power play), a defense that kept the puck in its own zone, and inconsistent goaltending...
...Harvard, as in Washington, a random sampling of administrators reveals not everybody agrees that a Department of Education is such a bad idea. Even Bok, who is seen as a leader among University presidents who have voiced opposition to the department-creating legislation, says that "reasonable men" might come out on different sides of the issue after weighing the advantages and disadvantages of creating a department...
...knew immediately the man was from Harvard. "I think that any Harvard man that doesn't admit he's kind of proud to be a Harvard is kidding himself, he says. Lopez, who proudly proclaims himself the first Mexican-American graduate of the Law School, has got a bad case of the Harvard disease. People who are less taken in by the mystique," he says, "are those who've been here." But, of course, there are exceptions to this rule. And Hank Lopez just happens to be one who found a publisher...