Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remembered as the president who brought back the lawn to the Yard." While some are reluctant to juxtapose Pusey and Bok and instead insist on emphasizing their similarities, others quite bluntly concede their differences. Ackerman says the Pusey administration was like the Nixon White House: "You couldn't break in, there was no way of giving a contrary opinion." Bok, on the other hand, Ackerman says, "tries to get unbiased opinions" and "invites openness...
...25th reunion class, represented by William C. Sawyer '51, and the tenth reunion class, represented by Ken S. Sicchitano '66, are both expected to break the previous records for those reunion years, at $1.3 million and $130,000, respectively, Clifton said...
...strategy to pull Britain back from its economic abyss: an agreement by the leadership of the Trades Union Congress to hold wage increases to 4½% ($4.61 on an average worker's salary) beginning Aug. 1 (TIME, May 10). In return, Healey offered a significant income tax break for lower-income workers...
...editions, a circulation of 355,000 and an instinct for the jugular. It once hired a white reporter to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and conducted a public fund drive to pay Jackie Robinson's travel expenses to Brooklyn after the Dodgers said they were ready to break baseball's color line. The Baltimore-based Afro-American chain told its 154,000 readers what was happening in their communities at a time (as late as 1960) when the first rule impressed upon Baltimore Sun police reporters was: if it happened to blacks it isn't news...
...society. "The atmosphere of those years must have rubbed off on me," Garrett said. But he decided that he didn't want that type of career, so he started working at the old Boston Record-American as head office boy. After a year of running errands, Garrett got a break and started writing for the paper...