Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tendency to join cults seems to come roughly in 50-year cycles in the U.S. A wave broke in the mid-19th century, then again after World War I, and now in the '70s. For several thousand years, the rule has been that cults nourish in times of great social change...
...reform" was thrown into question at Senate hearings this month. A $60 million, seven-year study conducted by the Stanford Research Institute in Seattle and Denver showed that people in guaranteed annual income programs, the centerpiece of the Carter plan, worked fewer hours than before, and their marriages broke up more frequently than those of persons on the present welfare system. Carter is considering supporting a revised welfare proposal that would not be fully funded until 1982 and would cost $6 billion...
...utilities for 35 years. In 1968 the Tribal Council signed a similar lease with a different consortium of utility companies allowing them to build the Navajo Generating Station, approving the digging of Black Mesa strip mine. Once again they agreed not to tax for 35 years. This time, protests broke out when the Navajos heard that Black Mesa, sacred Indian land, was going to be destroyed for a strip mine. In the six years after the signing of the first lease, the Navajos had seen the destruction caused by a strip mine and had watched Four Corners spew 123 million...
...Bill Morrison's fast-break slamdunk and Eric William's 20-ft. jumper at the buzzer gave the home squad its sevenpoint cushion as the clubs broke for the lockerroom...
Harvard's saber-swordsmen broke a 9-9 deadlock with three consecutive vitories to open the third round, then the epee and foil teams withstood a determined MIT comeback, as the Crimson humbled their competitors from the trade school down the river, 15-12, at the IAB last evening...