Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought the rules were stupid but at that time we never doubted that that was the way things were--it really is ludicrous," Brody recalls. The rules weren't always strictly observed, although Brody doesn't recall any occasions when either he or any of his friends kept a woman in the dorm overnight. But, he says, "you could screw in the afternoon and that was happening a lot. We also had a car and so there was always the back seat." Trustman says his whole generation "learned to be sexually active between 6 and 8 p.m. The style...
...change injurious regulations and challenging their adverse decisions in the courts (TIME, April 18). Says Presidential Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs Esther Peterson: "We have got to have somebody that speaks for the consumer, as we have people who speak for business." Only Gerald Ford's threatened veto kept the agency from being established...
Both try to protect what is left of their private lives. "One of the most ridiculous aspects of modern society," says Powell, "is the idea that everybody ought to inflict his deepest personal problems on everybody else. I think most people would be happier if they kept more to themselves." Once known as cutups who could down beers with the best of 'em, Jordan and Powell have become homebodies, of necessity. There is little time for cavorting. Though the two are thrown together regularly in the White House and on the tennis courts, they rarely see one another after...
...seems that the innovation may not be that dead after all. Throughout the recession, a small but determined number of firms kept their workers on four-day schedules, and as the presumably prosperous summer of '77 approaches, some other employers are giving the concept a fresh look. In the Chicago offices of the big Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, 550 employees this week begin a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day schedule that extends their workday to 9½ hours (8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.) but allows staffers to take either Fridays or Mondays off. David Ofher, general manager...
...efforts of Walton and Co. almost went for naught, though. Despite the fever pitch created by a wild crowd of 12,000 Oregonians hungry for their first pro sports title, Julius Erving (40 points) and George McGinnis (26 points) kept the Sixers in the game throughout, then nearly led them to a comeback victory...