Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes from a tradition that uses music not only as an outlet but as a force, an effective instrument of social change. "The record company's making out we're politicians, and that's a load of stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State to Be. "It was the high hope that you would become a civil servant," he says. "That was the best you could do. But rock 'n' roll changed the way I look at society...
Fine, Donald Fleming, and Hooft all notched baskets in the last minute, but Cornell kept adding points at the free throw line to prevent Harvard from coming any closer than the eight-point margin that separated the teams at the buzzer...
...within five points of the faltering Dartmouth quintet, 65-60. Knocking a point a minute off the lead, the Crimson parlayed Fine's top-of-the-key jumper to narrow the gap to two with 2:15 to play, 66-64. However, the Harvard cagers couldn't move any closer as they failed to take advantage of two late Dartmouth turnovers...
...fact that everyone receives equal pay, participates in making collective decisions and takes on equal responsibilities not only helps motivate staff members but also helps bring the staff closer together so that they can better support each other in their often emotionally-exhausting jobs as counselors...
...from the oil price hikes of 1973-74; it has teetered on the edge of bankruptcy since. Turkey has run out of foreign exchange, and its foreign debt has tripled since 1970, to $12 billion. The government says the annual inflation rate is 42%, but independent estimates put it closer to 60%. An industrial slump has idled half of plant capacity and pushed unemployment to 20%. There are daily blackouts of electrical power, and shortages of everything from margarine to light bulbs. Even traditional Turkish coffee is in short supply; replacements are tea and Nescafe. At a recent session...