Word: mid-1970s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since scientific names don't come from pop songs, Lucy was given the tongue- challenging classification Australopithecus afarensis. Many more remains of the species have turned up, including beautifully preserved footprints found in the mid-1970s in Tanzania by a team led by the famed archaeologist Mary Leakey. Set in solidified volcanic ash, the footprints confirmed that Lucy and her kin walked like humans. Some of the A. afarensis specimens date back about 3.9 million years B.P. (before the present), making them the oldest known hominid fossils...
...chief cause of the industrial tragedy is a consistent policy of subsidizing losers, usually because of national pride. Europe's 1951 coal and steel treaty prohibits such state aid, yet about $75 billion in government money has been lavished on steel producers since the mid-1970s through waivers and loopholes, while the sector was losing more than 260,000 jobs. Even as France, Germany and Britain were shuttering mills, the heavily subsidized Spanish industry built new plants that boosted national capacity 35%, while Italy hiked its potential...
Along the way, however, the brotherhood has also been losing rank-and-file members -- 500,000 since the mid-1970s, 68,000 of those just since Carey's election. This membership dive, along with mismanagement by Carey's plundering predecessors, has wrecked the union's finances. The International lost $58 million in 1992. The union is still slow to reveal its books to its own executive board -- nearly six months passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth...
Eckert's current position is also funded by a Korea Foundation grant received in the mid-1970s...
...husbands as indentured servants to brothel owners; and how many have been kidnapped from villages in Burma, Laos and southern China to service the new breed of tourist. A 1991 conference of Southeast Asian women's organizations estimated that 30 million women had been sold worldwide since the mid-1970s. Such figures are at best guesses and at worst only the tip of the iceberg. "The sex industry is a huge market with its own momentum," says Wassyla Tamzali, director of UNESCO's women's-rights department. "You have an infernal race between the client and the pimp to expand...