Word: joined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hockey and basketball teams, despite the influx of talented freshmen, seem destined to join their football and soccer counterparts in the annals of lousy sports seasons at Harvard. But maybe we can build a dynasty on the fine performances of the Eastern champion ping-pong team...
Since the proposals state that every Faculty member will "normally participate in the tutorial program" and that students will join Faculty members on departmental committees to monitor tutorials, the Faculty may react coolly to the changes...
Twenty-two state legislatures have already passed resolutions asking Congress to call a Constitutional Convention, the first since the basic law of the land was framed in 1787, to consider the no-deficit amendment. At least twelve states are expected to join the bandwagon by late spring, easily meeting the constitutional requirement that petitions be approved by 34 states. Said Oregon State Senator Jason Boe, president of the National Conference of State Legislatures, which has led the convention campaign: "It's going to come on like a freight train...
...savings bond was pronounced dead last week, slipping away to join such other relics of the pre-inflationary past as the 5? candy bar and the two-bit shoeshine. The bonds will continue to be sold through Dec. 31, 1979, after which they will be replaced by a costlier series that will pay the same 6% but have a much longer maturity. The old issue sold for $18.75 and paid $25 in five years; the new one will cost $25 but pay off $50 in eleven years and nine months...
...policies of these elitists would condemn the black underclass, the slum proletariat and rural blacks, to permanent poverty." Rustin contends that the curtailment of construction projects, factory expansions and farm ventures for environmental reasons already has cost many potential jobs for blacks. The only way that unemployed blacks can join the work force in a significant way, he argues, is for the economy to grow vigorously...