Word: files
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watched the fans file out of the stadium, I sensed they were not impressed or overjoyed. For them, this was not a performance worthy of a Boston team. It was just another win--nothing more, nothing less. Not a win to compare with their numerous playoff victories or a loss comparable to that at the hands of the Yanks last October (a fond memory of a Fenway day of despair...
Harvard has two weeks to file a response to charges it unconstitutionally influenced city policy by objecting under state zoning law to proposed restrictions on development in the Square...
...main reason for the Communist decline seems clear: the rank and file are unhappy over Berlinguer's strategy of sharing power with the Christian Democrats in the so-called historic compromise. By pledging parliamentary support to the Christian Democrat-led coalition, the party had to share the blame for the government's failure to deal effectively with such problems as inflation and unemployment. As a result, working-class support for the Communists has fallen off, especially in the big cities...
...case; thus a card might state that a subject had been arrested but fail to note that the case against him had been dropped or the person acquitted. Worse, if L.E.I.U. receives a query about someone on whom it has no information, it will automatically start a file on that person...
...stations relentlessly shut down and the gauge's needle sinking like the setting sun toward Empty. If at last a gas line appears, winding up the road a quarter of a mile to an oasis of heraldic light, the effect is surreal: the machines in their idling file give off an almost animal heat, the drivers waiting inside them feeling anxious, vaguely betrayed (by Detroit, Carter, Schlesinger, OPEC, history) and sometimes alarmingly close to the Hobbesian state of nature...