Word: group
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preliminary talks between Christopher's group and Taiwan's President Chiang Ching-kuo were beclouded by the country's dark mood. Negotiations, scheduled to take place at the Foreign Ministry, were shifted to Taipei's Grand Hotel when 20,000 protesters gathered in front of the ministry. Some demonstrators stomped on heaps of peanuts, yelling, "This is Carter!" One desperate taxi driver doused himself with gasoline and, shouting "Long live the Republic of China!" set himself afire in his car; he was rescued and sent to a hospital...
...under Lyndon Johnson and, in the early '70s, specialized in budget watching at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. Says Rivlin, who is a divorced mother of three: "Things are better now for women economists, but history is difficult to break. The ranks are very thin in my age group...
...believe," Venturi's group announced, "a careful documentation and analysis of the commercial strip is as important to architects and urbanists today as were the studies of medieval Europe and ancient Rome and Greece to earlier generations." Why? Because the strip was there; it was what the dominant American machine, the car, had actually done to cities. The architect's job was not to ignore the strip (it would not go away, whether Modernism liked it or not), but to learn to do the strip well. And this meant tolerating variety: of style, of lingo, of message. "For the artist...
Generally, about 30 per cent of the early admission applicants are admitted, compared to the 17 per-cent admission rate for the candidates as a whole, Fitz-simmons said. About 85 per cent of the early admits accept admission, as compared to about 75 per cent of the total group, he added
...committee on Medical School admissions policies will recommend that the school retain its controversial minority admissions subcommittee, although it believes the group's authority should be reduced, an ad hoc committee member said yesterday...