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...with Israel, vindicating its pitiful performance six years earlier. Diplomatic ties with the U.S., severed by the 1967 war, were resumed after Richard Nixon's visit to Damascus in 1974. Supplemented by handouts from the gulf states and revenues from its petroleun pipeline during the oil boom of the mid-1970s, Syria enjoyed its most prosperous years ever, with economic growth hitting an average rate...
This is only part of the answer, says Carnegie-Mellon University Professor Alfred Blumstein. The full explanation, he says, is "demographics plus toughness." Many criminal-justice experts are disturbed by the rigid form that the new toughness has taken. Since the mid-1970s nearly all states have passed some form of mandatory sentencing legislation-that is, laws stipulating that offenders convicted of certain crimes, or of a succession of crimes, must go to prison. In New York, for instance, the prisoner explosion is partly the result of a 1978 law requiring judges to imprison all violent-felony offenders...
...first participatory computer tale, Adventure, was created in the mid-1970s by computer researchers in Cambridge and Stanford. It involved a treasure hunt through a labyrinth of caves and dungeons and soon attracted a cult following. Miniature versions that ran on microcomputers were available in the late 1970s...
...Quarterly), is growing (circ. 558,000, up 7.5%) but has deliberately shifted from a clotheshorse consciousness to deal, like Esquire, with popular culture in the broadest sense. Under Whittle and Moffitt, Esquire's circulation has grown somewhat, from 652,000 to 730,000 (well below the mid-1970s peak of 1.25 million) while the number of advertising pages has soared from 535 in 1981 to 1,312 in 1983. Two major reasons for the upsurge: Editor Moffitt's success in appealing to affluent fellow members of the baby-boom generation, and a series of service-oriented features that...
...inability of the former Harvard Police Cheif David I. Gorski to deal with his staff created severe internal divisions within the department in the mid-1970s. Low morale among the officers is generally accepted as a significant factor behind Gorski's departure from the department...