Word: closings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonid Brezhnev. The two leaders, it was assumed, would announce their long awaited summit in mid-January. Would there be any fallout on SALT from Washington's decision to normalize relations with China? Absolutely not, Carter told a TV audience. Said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "We are close to the end of the road...
...Bakhtiar, 63, an outspoken opponent of the regime and a prominent member of the anti-Shah National Front. He too seemed to have compromised. Denying rumors that this was the first stage of a plan for the Shah to give up all his powers and abdicate the throne, a close confidant of the Shah declared: "There is absolutely no question of the Shah stepping aside or stepping down. His decision is to enforce the constitution...
...After a run of a hundred years or so," wrote one of America's leading architecture critics, Peter Blake, in his belligerent text Form Follows Fiasco (1977), "Modern Dogma is worn out. We are now close to the end of one epoch, and well be fore the start of a new one. During this period of transition there will be no moratorium on building ... there will just be more and more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace...
...worse, and most assuredly was Harvard's poorest all-around performance of the season. After a relatively close first period, the visitors from Providence turned a 1-0 contest into justified teamacide, scoring three goals in each of the final two stanzas...
...tired Crimson five ran on adrenalin as the IAB crowd broke into uncharacteristic hysteria. With the band providing the beat, Harvard responded, Hooft sinking a five-footer and two foul shots, sandwiched around a Christel jumper, to close...