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...schooled his son early in the uses of power. Carlos' family connections and the Ph.D. he earned at Harvard in political economy and government assured him success. But in Mexico the path to power is politics, and politics means the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). By the mid-1970s Salinas was hustling up the ladder...
Before serving as district attorney, Harshbarger was general counsel to the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, making him no stranger to the problems of corruption in government. And the attorney general's office is familiar turf as well--Harshbarger was chief of the Public Protection Bureau there in the mid-1970s...
...Harvard, interest in the admission of Asian American students dates back to the mid-1970s, when Asian American and other minority groups sought to increase the recruitment and admission of minority applicants. A major objective of the Harvard Asian American student group then was to be recognized by Harvard as a minority group, and included in the affirmative action programs of the Admissions Office. By 1983, student concerns included their belief that stereotypes of Asian Americans held by Admissions Officers contributed to the low percentage of applicants admitted, a rate below that for all other ethnic groups, including whites...
When the small thrift ran into trouble during the inflationary climate of the mid-1970s, it was taken over by Denver businessman James Metz, who saw the sleepy S&L as the future flagship of a financial empire. He named himself chairman and hired Wise, an S&L marketing whiz from Columbia Savings in Kansas, to run the company. The nattily dressed Wise wasted no time in transforming Mile High's small-town image. He launched an ambitious expansion drive, unveiled plans for a glass-and-steel headquarters downtown, and renamed the company Silverado, evoking the dreams of prospectors...
...concept of a space sailing race first surfaced in Arthur C. Clarke's 1963 story The Wind from the Sun, about a seven-craft regatta to the moon. And in the mid-1970s, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena actually designed a sophisticated sailship to rendezvous with Halley's comet, but a NASA budget squeeze killed the project...