Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophistication that it still fails to ameliorate the CHUL representatives and request a world's oldest injustice-sex seat, discrimination. The student discontent to long dormant should come to life. As early as January 5, Harvard-Radcliffe students will be able to bring sex-blind admissions to the forefront when the directors of the Associated Harvard Alumni arrive at Harvard for a three-day conference. They hope to meet in the Houses with student representatives for the purpose of discussing informally the issues that affect the present student body. There will be House meeting late that Friday afternoon with...
Almost to a man, the managers who are coming to the forefront in Europe have a common objective: they are reaching out for new markets, particularly in the European Economic Community. Though most European economies are troubled by higher inflation than the U.S., they are recovering from a recent slowdown in growth, and the potential for expansion is great. After last year's currency revaluations some Continental businessmen are considerably more interested in direct investment in the U.S. because their money can now buy more. In addition, Europe is catching up to the U.S. in use of sophisticated technology...
...Gordon Mills stands at the forefront of what Variety calls "the new strong men of the music biz"-the talent managers, who now wield the influence and prestige once exclusively held by pop publishers, record-company executives and sometimes disk jockeys. Mills is releasing O'Sullivan's songs on his own new record label, MAM, named after the parent Mills company, Management Agency and Music. The original MAM, whose profits are running around $6,000,000 a year, has some 30 subsidiaries that, among other things, own all of Paul Anka's songs, manage the British appearances...
BRAZIL IS notorious for its continuous political upheavals and its rigid censorship, but its filmmakers are now in the forefront of the newest "new cinema," making politically relevant and thought-provoking films after years of stagnation and American imports. Many of the best of these films are simply banned and never heard of again, other are either too avant-garde or too boring to survive the first few showings. Macunaima, after a few cuts by the censors, has managed to avoid all these fates, and is now the most popular home product in Brazil's film history...
...Haiphong, and the slumbering American left, and right, have found their respective voices again. These voices were echoed in sotes for McGovern and for George Wallace, while Muskie has been found among the casualties of the primary battle. It is Wallace and McGovern who have found themselves at the forefront of American politics in 1972, for they speak for those who have found themselves ignored, for those who protest the road their country is travelling...