Word: evens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNDERGRADUATES LOVE to stage musical reviews. They require little scenery, characterization, or preparation. Singers like them because they offer solos enough even for the less-talented voices. Directors like them because they're easily transformed by adding and deleting numbers. Lazy audiences like them because there's no plot to follow, no psychological interplay to understand--only a leisurely ramble down musical garden-paths, on which the weary can close their eyes for intermittent stretches of time without missing much...
When the strike began, growers insisted farm workers observe President Carter's 7 per cent wage-price guidelines even though they exempt both growers and workers. In 1978, lettuce growers made$71 million in profits and raised the price of lettuce by over 100 per cent. When growers realized workers would not accept their 7 per cent offer, the union-busting began...
...changed from Levi to Klein and t-shirts have been replaced by Gloria Vanderbuilt blouses. It seems that activism is not as "chic" as it was ten years ago and perhaps we should be thankful that the regressive 1970's will be over in a few months. Historically, every even numbered decade has been a progressive one.....let us see what the '80s will bring...
...arch problem which made even walking difficult forced her to begin regular visits to a local chiropractor last spring. Forman admits to skepticism at first but now credits the doctor with her recent comeback...
...Even if some "pro-choice" advocates might concede that abortion is murder, many might argue that under some circumstances inflicting pain on one person in order to lessen the pain of others is the lesser of two evils. In particular, many people feel that the right to abortion is vital to the liberation of women from oppression and the liberation of men from the role of oppressors. But if the women's movement claims to be an alternative to the politics of power and violence, of the strong asserting themselves at the expense of the weak, then it must either...