Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Longsworth, who was president of Hampshire in 1977, decided to divest when students occupied the Cole Science Center, locking out all faculty members and administrators to protest Hampshire's South-Africa-related investments, Gluckler said. "We really needed a strong investment policy," he added...
...revolution that cut its export production from 5.5 million barrels a day to zero, the country's 27,000 drillers, engineers, technicians and other oil workers began returning to their jobs. In the fields of Marun and Ahwax Asmari, in the refineries of Abadan, and at the pumping center of Ahvaz, precious petroleum is beginning to flow anew as the industry struggles to resume limited export production...
...York City Ballet Superdancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, two weeks in Washington was a head over heel experience. Midway in the company's Kennedy Center program, Misha gave a special performance in the White House East Room; while dancing with Ballerina Patricia McBride, he soared so high in a flashing cabriole that his head very nearly collided with a massive crystal chandelier. Surviving that, Baryshnikov, alas, was unexpectedly hobbled by a familiar dancer's affliction, an aggravated Achilles' tendon, and forced to miss his final performances...
...York City to study acting. For spending money, he and a partner did white-faced comedy mime in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, occasionally matching acts with Acrobat Philippe Petit, who went on to walk between the towers of New York's World Trade Center. On a boffo day, Williams made...
Nothing is very precise in this business, but I think we've directed the center of our shows attitudinally at a younger marketplace. Younger is a very broad definition, by the way. We try to direct the main thrust to adults who are under a certain age bracket. But we also want to interrelate characters within those shows that appeal to segments on both ends. If you want to have a program, for example, whose heartbeat is to teenagers and adults under 50, you try to have elements within those shows that appeal to under-teenagers and people over...