Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were babbling and twitching like a flock of noisy starlings now sit jammed in their seats, motionless, their young eyes straining to see. Suddenly the ebony hemisphere above them gleams with fire: the planets, their satellites and some 4,000 stars begin marching across the heavens toward day break. The audience sucks in its breath. A child grabs the arm of the teacher next to her as she stares at the sky. For it really seems that the skin of the dome has been silently folded back to reveal the universe. There is the illusion of floating weightlessly out into...
...Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Lyndon Johnson and, in the early '70s, specialized in budget watching at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. Says Rivlin, who is a divorced mother of three: "Things are better now for women economists, but history is difficult to break. The ranks are very thin in my age group...
...decades in and out of undistinguished middle-level teaching and Government jobs before her talents were finally recognized and she was made a tenured professor at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. Wallace believes that the main difficulty facing young women entering the field of economics is to break into the mentor-protégé system, which has historically excluded females. Says she: "Without a mentor, you have a lot of trouble getting money to do research on your...
With Harvard maintaining a slight territorial advantage for the first ten minutes, it appeared that a charging penalty to Northeastern's Gerry Cowie at 11:46 would open the scoring. It did. An over-pressuring Harvard power play left Parks free for a two-on-one break. His slapshot from just inside the right blueline beat Lau to the upper right corner and the shorthanded Huskies grabbed the lead for the first time...
...Crimson surged further ahead when Dale Valicenti scored on a two-on-one break with seven minutes left in the second period. Paul Mangano provided the assist...