Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parties wandered far from their starting points of science fiction, and late at night often ended up weighing the merits of different types of birth control, or considering the possibility of Maine seceding from the U.S. and forming an independent nation with Canada's maritime provinces. As the parties broke up, fans continued to wander up and down the corridors and sometimes formed "elevator parties," simply remaining in one elevator as it traveled, continuing to talk and drink...
Harvard also broke the law in regards to Asian-Americans. The history of Asian-Americans is one of an oppressed minority. One need only recall the conditions of intense discrimination and cruelty under which they helped build the West, or the living conditions of many inner city Asians today to see this. Title VI, Chapter 60 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 recognized Asian-Americans as a minority group--but Harvard didn't. It was only after a contested struggle by Asian-American students on campus that minority status was granted them...
Then the situation in Boston worsened. Two power blackouts cut off electricity for 100,000 people at the height of the storm. In some working-class neighborhoods, looting broke out. Long lines formed at the few food markets that could open, and shelves were quickly stripped bare of milk, bread, potato chips, ginger ale-almost anything edible. Not until two days after the storm, when the major highways were finally cleared, could the city be resupplied with food...
...before his divorce in 1974, has brought in some outside executives and is seeking a new advertising agency to change the company's cheap-beer image. Schlitz is also thought by some to be for sale; merger talks with cigarette-making R.J. Reynolds Industries (Winston, Salem, Camel) broke off three weeks...
Hollywood summoned the actor early on. L.B. Mayer, the head of MGM. supposedly broke down in tears when Clift said: "Your scripts are bad, Mr. Mayer, and I don't want to be typecast -that'd ruin me." Finally, when he did go West for Red River, it was on his own, precedent-setting terms, and he did not have to sign the standard seven-year contract that had hobbled so many earlier stars. His best parts came in the early '50s, in A Place in the Sun with his friend Elizabeth Taylor, and in From Here...