Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story with, so to speak, grass-roots appeal, some metropolitan newspapers and broadcasters devoted more space and time to the cleanup issue last week, than they did to the terrorist attack at the Iraqi embassy in Paris or anything going on in Congress. The New York Post banner headlined a front-page story, CITY DOG OWNERS DOING THEIR DUTY. The Daily News ran daily features on "poopetrators," concluding in one headline, ON THE FIRST DOG DAY MORNING, CRIME IS DROPPING. The New York Times editorialized that it was "one of those delicate moments of social experiment when every citizen...
...lead the economy into recession. Detroit's automakers, most of whom had underestimated the strength of this year's sales, almost unanimously expect a repeat of 1978's performance next year. Real estate brokers, pointing to high demand from the now grown "baby boom" generation, predict a banner year in 1979. Yet many economists agree with Vice President Ted Tung of Continental Illinois Bank, who warns, "There will be a substantial slowing of consumer spending in the next six months...
...exit visa are sometimes caught in a Catch-22. Fired from their jobs, these "refuseniks" become liable to parasitism laws if they refuse to accept menial work. "Malicious hooliganism" laws round up other dissidents. In one hooliganism case, Refusenik Vladimir Slepak was convicted after hanging outside his apartment a banner demanding the right to leave the country...
...millions of people in Britain and elsewhere around the world last week, it seemed as if Huxley's prophetic vision had become reality. Banner headlines in Britain called it OUR MIRACLE and BABY OF THE CENTURY. On television newscasts in Europe and the U.S., stories about an obscure British couple and the abstruse subject of embryology shouldered aside items about the Middle East, international trade balances and inflation. Some commentators heralded the coming birth as a miracle of modern medicine, comparable to the first kidney and heart transplants. Theologians?and more than a few prominent scientists?sounded warnings about...
...Angola and virtually all of it on the islands of São Toméand Principe, a Democratic Republic that was once a Portuguese colony. There are Cuban engineering teams all over the continent. In Angola, nearly 800 Cuban teachers are running makeshift schools under the impressive banner of "The Che Guevara Internationalist Pedagogical Detachment." More Peace Corps than Afrika Korps, most of the teachers are barely out of secondary school themselves. Their average age is 19, and they are paid just 30 pesos (about $40) a month...