Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Take stool cultures of all people working in the central kitchen and the five dining halls it serves -- Lowell, Leverett, Winthrop, Eliot and Kirkland...
...Arms Talks. SALT is the most important part of our relationship. Signing SALT II will improve the atmosphere and help solve some of our other problems. Politically it will show that we can agree on the central issue of our relationship. It is hard to say how long [voluntary arms] restraint can last. Delay can stir suspicion and mistrust and could have tremendously serious consequences...
...Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...
...loan specialist for California's Bank of America asserts: "You'd have to be pretty incompetent not to make money in cattle this year." Reason: a combination of high prices for meat and relatively low costs for corn and other feeds that has corn growers grumbling. Vegetable growers in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the winter-spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing...
...demand for Jackson Pollock's least scribble might be less fierce if a skidding car had not sent him the way of James Dean. And what of Mark Rothko, who killed himself with a razor and pills in 1970? In hindsight, death appeared to be the central image of Rothko's late, dark, claustrophobic canvases. Indeed, his suicide gave his art a simplified legibility that it did not really have? the operatic wholeness of art and life that a myth-hungry audience expects of peintres maudits. In a grisly sort of way, Rothko's suicide has been taken...