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Word: lowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...location seems to give its town/gown relationship an advantage over more centrally located Harvard. City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser said yesterday Cambridge and MIT have enjoyed a very "low key" relationship. "When they breathe it doesn't send a ripple through the city the way Harvard's actions do," she said...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Cambridge/MIT Hold Steady In Stormy/Calm Relationship | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...recent shutdown of Harvard's--and the nation's--only low-level waste dumping site has spotlighted the situation...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: City Council to Examine Waste Disposal Questions | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...pension funds are running low, eh? I had better not plan on retiring until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...kill nine men, five women or four children. Murdering the young earns more points because the act requires more "heart." On the eve of the killing spree the loft becomes a staging arena for a combination of horseplay and unfocused hatred: " 'Kill! Kill! Kill!' The chant was low, murmured, sloshing across the room like dirty water in a flooded basement. It came from mechanized mouths below mesmerized eyes, robotlike, hypnotic, uncontrollable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kill! Kill! Kill! | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...called the Cultural Revolution, but the decade-long upheaval that ended in 1976 with Mao Tse-tung's death was a time of sorrow and hardship for China's scholars. Roughneck Red Guards took over classroom and campus; universities were shut down. Academic standards sank to scandalously low levels. Eminent teachers and scientists were sent off to the countryside for "re-education," to work as farm hands and laborers. Science came virtually to a standstill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Long March for China | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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