Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was undoubtedly asking too much. With gallows wit, Sorensen remarked: "Well, Gary Gilmore and I..." He told TIME New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett: "As someone said to me this morning, a lot of dirty little streams flowed together to make this flood. There was the extreme right, the Kennedy haters, the Carter haters. The smokescreen reasons-outright lies and falsehoods-masked the real opposition. To boil it down to one sentence, people felt that an outsider with my beliefs should not head that agency...
...whom he met by chance one night in a pub, wrote out a ?38,000 check on the spot to finance a Laker scheme to buy twelve planes from British Overseas Airways Corp. With them, Laker flew 4,000 sorties in the 1948-49 Berlin airlift. "We made a lot of money," he recalls, "but we bloody well earned every penny...
...Bill Cleary and I developed our styles together but I felt it was a good opportunity. There's a lot of inner spirit at Yale. I love it here...
Seven of the 30 reading tutors, and a smaller number of the tutors who taught other subjects this semester, were black. Marvin Comick '77 thinks more blacks would have become involved if the tutoring had more publicity. "A lot of people who have a cultural bond with the students should be working but aren't, because they did not know about the program" Comick said. Atkinson said he had hpoed for more black tutors, and had planned to approach black organizations for volunteers. But, he added, so many people signed up at registration and Phillips Brooks open house, that...
...efforts have not saved the project from struggling through its share of snags and disappointments. One chronic snag is the requirement that all funding go through the fiscal offices of Boston Public Schools, a process Grant described as causing enough red tape to make any simple project a lot of work. Several months ago, the state approved a $55,000 grant to the career development program, but Harvard still has not gotten any money. Somewhere on its journey through the public bureaucracy the contract got lost. As a result, the career development program has fallen behind schedule, Grant said...