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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called Helsinki issue has to be seen in the context of the evolution of East-West relationships. We used it as an incentive to get a Berlin Agreement and the start of mutual balanced force reductions in Europe by refusing to agree to a European Security Conference until after a Berlin Agreement. And that in turn quieted down an explosive situation, we hope for the foreseeable future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time: Kissinger Speaks Out on Foreign Policy | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...fairly glory in their womanhood, in their appreciation of feminism as a force "to enrich and diversify human life." Concomitant with this appreciation is a healthy distrust of those who would deny women their proper place in any scheme for societal and cultural revolution. And it is in this context that Marxist feminists and would-be "liberated" men come in for such a rough time. The problem with Marxists, says the Sourcebook, is that they fail to locate the problem of sexism where it belongs--in the oppression of women, as a class, by men. In seeking to liberate...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Glorying in Womanhood | 10/24/1975 | See Source »

...more to the stock market and to retained profits for capital sources. This, of course, puts a premium on profits: you can't retain earnings if you don't have any profits, and no one will want to buy your stocks if they don't pay dividends. In this context, then, Simon points out that profits, adjusted for inflation, for all domestic nonfinancial corporations have declined from a high of $41.1 billion in 1966 to $20.6 billion...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Parting the Waters | 10/24/1975 | See Source »

...dean came to Harvard 11 years ago, a stranger from the midwest, and after one year on the medical faculty became its dean. In turn, his major achievements have been focused more on the Medical School in its societal context than on the academic affairs of his faculty...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Ebert Bows Out | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

...context of Harvard's football history, however, the Lions are not the biggest bunch of patsies the Crimson ever ran into. Around the turn of the century the Crimson used to line up some real laughers, like 158-0 (Exeter, 1886) and 110-0 (Wesleyan, 1887). An 11-game season in 1887 saw Harvard outscore its opponents 660 to 23. So everything is relative, which is something that Columbia head-coach Bill Campbell must be telling himself...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

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