Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
Observers say her visit to the U.S. this week--after only six months as prime minister--presents an opportunity for the Muslim leader to present a less hostile image of Islam. Many say that with the recent death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the West can look forward to an era of good relations with Muslim leaders like Bhutto...
Last January, Vellucci announced he would not seek another term on the City Council. His decision marked the end of an era in city politics. Since the early 1940s, the City Council has been divided between members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), an alliance of good-government reformers whom Vellucci disparages as the "goo-goos," and neighborhood-based politicians running as Independents...
November 30: Freshman Neil Phillips hits a bank shot to clinch a 64-62 win over Vermont for the men's basketball team, the first win in the Peter Roby coaching era...
...University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...