Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under loannidis' cold eye, life has become even more repressive than under the harshest days of Papadopoulos' rule. Students are harassed by police, who constantly loiter on campuses and are suspected of having informers in the classrooms. The right-wing newspaper Vradyni, Athens' major evening journal, has been shut down for criticizing the government. Koumkan, a rummylike game adored by Greek housewives, is forbidden as degenerate; after a brief revival under Papadopoulos, the music of Marxist Composer Mikis Theodorakis is once more discouraged, as singers are told, "for your own good." The possibility that elections...
...this time every year, Indian farmers begin to eye their sun-scorched fields and await the life-giving monsoon rains of June and July. After two years of below-normal precipitation, manufacturers and power-plant managers are waiting for the rain just as anxiously. Only a heavy monsoon can help to alleviate the crippling shortage of electric power that is aggravating India's many industrial and agricultural agonies...
...most eye-opening statistic of the week was that real output of goods and services in the first quarter fell at an annual rate of 5.8%. If output goes down again in the current quarter, many politicians surely will be talking about a second Nixon recession-and an inflationary one at that. There were other downbeat indicators: industrial production in March fell for the fourth straight month, and is now 2.8% below its November peak; housing starts last month were 36% below a year earlier. The declines did little to break the grip of inflation. Consumer prices in March shot...
...Vietnam War. Early in this country's military involvement, lawyer Calkins says he tried to justify the U.S. position but "I realized in defending it that the arguments for it weren't very convincing." He made his case well enough or often enough to catch Chuck Colson's eye. Calkins (along with Bok) made the second of Nixon's enemy lists, notoriety Calkins attributes to a 1969 anti-war speech he made in Dunster House...
...into line with "the highest ethical standards of the time" because it is more than just a university. Harvard is one of America's 500 largest corporations, with an endowment worth $1.4 billion. The mangers of this endowment are corporate executives and bankers who manage the endowment with an eye to maximum return...