Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joel C. Williams, a former graduate student, served two years at hard labor in a Massachusetts correctional institution for stealing books from the Harvard College libraries in 1932. A local bookstore turned Williams in to Cambridge police when he tried to sell two stolen books.
It's simple. Dartmouth is one very, very insecure institution. Eight years ago the government told the school it couldn't call its team the Indians anymore. The bigwigs in Hanover were forced to change the nickname. First it was the Big Green. Gross. With a name like that it...
Thus Byrd was shaken by last week's filibuster, which he had striven mightily to head off for fear that it would tarnish the Senate's image and kill a major part of Carter's energy bill. That fear-and a certain anger at the inconvenience-was...
Warns Brookings Institution Economist John Palmer: "It's incredible that Congress would be moving so fast to replace one retirement system with a new one it knows so little about."
DIED. Geoffrey T. Hellman, 70, prolific New Yorker staff writer for close to half a century; of cancer; in Manhattan. Hellman's contributions to "Talk of the Town," his acerbic profiles of such legendary characters as Alfred Knopf, and his portraits of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum...