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Word: bangs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall Street lawyer, as Deputy Secretary to handle the Treasury's 126,344-employee bureaucracy, and assigned Anthony Solomon, 58, an economist and State Department veteran, as Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, to run daily international operations. That leaves Blumenthal free to concentrate on the big-bang issues of inflation, taxes and the dollar-and have at least some chance to quit the office after the twelve-hour days that he considers the optimum for efficiency. He carefully guards his weekends as private times, and sometimes leaves on a quick vacation without revealing his destination to anyone except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Up from Some Stumbles | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...just too bad that all that had to go on in Providence," said Harvard diver Sue Abkowitz. "It would have been a big bang to have the meet here to open the new pool...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Harvard Hosts Swim Meet At Brown Due to Delayed Opening of New Pool | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

William O. Taylor '54, publisher and president of the Boston Globe and one of the nine lay members of the commission, said yesterday, "The two areas which I think that we will look at closest are first getting a better bang for the buck and second getting better support for high education...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Commission To Study State College System | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the statement proves to be a dangling phrase. In the mechanical effort to push Tony toward a catharsis, Wexler loads the script with a series of stagy and unconvincing plot incidents: a suicide, a gang rumble, a gang bang. By the time Tony takes a soul-searching all-night subway ride to arrive at the story's bogus happy ending, the movie has thrown away its subject to lull us with sentimental bromides about Finding Oneself. We might as well be at Roseland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Discomania | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...noon the winter season starts off with a bang when the women's fencing team duels a team from Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU). At 2 p.m. the men fencers will slice through what is left...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Winter Is A-Comin' In And Fall Is A-Going | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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