Word: cites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year, that audience has not come. Popular movies which drew 1100 people last year have attracted only 600 this year; presidents complain that they cannot judge accurately how large an audience each film will draw. Film society officials cite the Harvard Square Theatre's new repertory format as one cause of declining attendance...
...list of violations, betrayals and criminal acts is long, and we can only cite a few instances here. Surely Kissinger's actions as regards American intervention in the Viet Nam War must rank among his worst crimes. While he inherited rather than initiated American involvement, he continued to prosecute it for five long and bloody years; while Kissinger talked of peace, the war was widened to Cambodia and Laos. The heaviest and most destructive bombing of the war occurred while Kissinger talked peace. Some of the largest and most destructive land operations involving the heaviest casualties to civilians occurred after...
...company's position has been that workers do not want unions and that the company has a responsibility to resist them. They cite the fact that the union has lost elections in several plants. But they fail to mention that the company fired union sympathizers and intimidated workers during these campaigns. This not only influenced those elections but chilled the desire for unions in other plants...
...city council last night also unanimously voted to cite Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok for affirmative action and president-designate of Fisk University, for his work at Harvard...
...word: thalidomide. In 1961-62, the stubborn skepticism of FDA Pharmacologist Dr. Frances Kelsey kept that tranquilizer from sale in the U.S.-though it was marketed in Europe and Canada, where its use by pregnant women led to the birth of many deformed babies. Critics, however, can cite another name from the same period: MER29. The FDA approved that anticholesterol drug for use, then rescinded the decision when some people who took it developed cataracts...