Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read the moving letter to Aldo Moro, published in Milan's daily Il Giorno. It capped a series of urgent appeals last week from U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and other prominent figures to Moro's Red Brigades kidnapers to release unharmed the missing Christian Democratic leader and former Italian Premier. But as the agonizing human tragedy entered its seventh week, only Moro's captors knew for sure whether he was alive or dead, and they gave no hints as to what they might do next...
...insurrection, and Mario Rossi and Augusto Viel, two members of a former gang called October XXII who gained notoriety for the killing of a bank guard during a Genoa holdup in 1971. Along with the communiqué came another plaintive, handwritten letter from Moro addressed to Christian Democratic Secretary-General Benigno Zaccagnini. It called the party's rejection of negotiations "wicked and ungrateful." The letter went on: "It is a matter of seconds rather than minutes. We are at massacre time...
...suburbs: in 1970 the Dallas school district was 58% white, 34% black and 8% Mexican American. Seven years later whites numbered only 35%. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People became so discouraged with the situation that it appealed for the plan to be reviewed. Claimed N.A.A.C.P. General Counsel Nathaniel Jones: "The Dallas plan had become something of a model for large urban school districts that did not want to or felt for one reason or another that they couldn't completely desegregate...
...larger percentage gain for the options, since they cost much less than shares of stock. Thus profits made on options in recent weeks have been spectacular. Between Friday, April 7, and last Friday's close, IBM options jumped from $2 to $10.50, a 425% increase; General Electric's rose 475%, from 50? to $2.87; Kodak's jumped 470%, from...
...stylistic narcissism, low-keyed but explicit, whose pale concrete, blond wood and natural linen wall coverings provided a strictly subordinate background to the paintings. (The architect never lived to see it finished; he died in 1974.) This unpretentious exactness of taste was much in keeping with Mellon's general style of philanthropy: the ambition being, a phrase often heard by the curators and museum directors who have dealt with him, to do it right, and not skimp, but within budget. Thanks to the design, most of the center's collection was simultaneously available to view after it opened...