Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film society that's been doggedly cranking out respectable and sparsely attended movies all year will try to bail itself out an shuck their principles by showing a bald-faced universal drawing card like Love Storyor The Graduate. Everything is Order--the cop on the watch, the way people file in to A,B,C and D. You might marvel at what Mailer would have called the "nursery school" architecture, and blink in awe at the number of faceless forms hunched over desks in the Science Library on Friday night, but everything is extraterrestially humming, scientific, in control. Especially...
...past two years there are estimated to be some 200 approved degree candidates on file at any given time; between 80 and 90 of these are graduated annually, slightly over half being granted the A.B. after a minimum of six or seven years juggling schedules and multiple responsibilities to reach this retrospectively sweet moment...
...same time, Ford wrung a promise from Democratic leaders to try to persuade rank-and-file congressional Democrats to separate a controversial provision repealing the oil depletion allowance from a $21.3 billion tax-reduction bill intended to stimulate the economy and help bring the recession to an end. Liberal Democrats in the House had insisted on tying the two measures together, even though their leaders had warned that the debate over depletion repeal might delay swift passage...
...table and fidgeted. He avoided the legal issue, but did not deny that CIA agents had frequently opened the mail of his accuser, New York's bellicose Congresswoman Bella Abzug. Nor could he if he had wanted to. Lawyer Abzug had demanded that the CIA turn over its file on her, and purged of what Colby considered sensitive items, it now lay at her elbow in a long, fat manila envelope...
Presiding over a House subcommittee hearing, Congresswoman Abzug drew admissions from Colby that the CIA had begun compiling a file on her 22 years ago when she represented a client before the House Un-American Activities Committee-long before her national prominence and election to Congress in 1970. What she termed the "rotten stuff' in the envelope also included copies of letters she had written to Soviet officials trying to locate heirs to an estate, a report on an anti-Viet Nam War speech she had made in New York, details of her meeting with Vietnamese Communists in Paris...