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Word: blights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the city, already infected with urban blight, began to deteriorate. Industries disappeared, buildings were abandoned, people moved out. The Stockton mansion was torn down, and replaced by a gas station. E.J. herself moved on to college, to New York, to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can't Go Home Again | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Much of today's criticism tends to "darken understanding and blight enjoyment" of literature, Dame Helen Gardner, Norton Professor of Poetry and professor of English literature emerita at Oxford, said yesterday in the first of the 1979-80 Norton Lectures, titled "Wanted: A New Humanism...

Author: By Mark Muro, | Title: Helen Gardner Delivers 1979-80 Norton Lectures | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

...Brett a chance to do those set pieces that distinguish his books, notably one in which a domineering talk show host is reduced to helpless blithering by a deftly counterpunching old comic (who is an admirably wise and well-developed character) and another satirizing those ghastly award shows that blight English telly as depressingly as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Acting Up | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...advertising. To quote again from the annual report: "Advertising... is a fine way to carry on a dialogue with the public on topical issues. The Involved American Campaign of 1977, for example, appealed to citizens to take a stand on a number of national issues from energy to urban blight to aging. More than 35,000 Americans responded." An ARCO official told The New York Times that the company's three long-term public policy concerns were the withdrawal of public lands from development, the stringency of the Clean Air Act and increasing government regulation of corporations. ARCO's programs...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: The ARCO Connection | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Sure we all envy the ballplayer--so young, so strong, playing hookie from winter, inflation, the energy crisis, and urban blight to gambol in the Florida clime and play baseball, just play baseball...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

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