Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jacquet decided to form his band because he was inspired by the enthusiasm and eagerness of members of the jazz band at Harvard. "The decision to form his band was made on the morning of a concert crowning his residency here at Harvard. As he was walking along the Charles, [Jacquet said he was] swept up in the `enthusiasm the young musicians demonstrated, [he] couldn't help being pleased by their eagerness,'" says an Office of the Arts release...
...mass of details to work out for the Poor People's Campaign, a nationwide series of marches and speeches that would end with a giant rally in Washington. But the civil rights leader insisted on marching in Memphis, where black sanitation workers employed by the city were demonstrating to form a union. These men, he said, were abused and overworked, yet unwilling to remain silent -- exactly the qualities he was looking for. Said King: "You're doing in Memphis what I hope to do in the Poor People's Campaign...
...Roger Chaffee, who had died on the launching pad the previous year. Some critics sneered at the outpouring of ingenuity and treasure. A "moondoggle," one detractor labeled the Apollo 8 flight. A Congressman termed it a "garish spectacle." It could be seen -- and was -- as history's most elaborate form of escapism...
Every slight is said to draw its source form the same collective unconsicous of racism and sexism. The implications of the challenge are severe...
Iraq came under widespread criticism last year after it killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of Kurdish villagers with a chemical-weapons attack in the gulf war. Now U.S. officials confirm that Baghdad has been developing yet another form of warfare expressly banned by international law: biological weapons...