Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given this predisposition of mine, I was genuinely intrigued when I heard Stephen S.J. Hall talk about Harvard's new Delta 2000 computer system. Hall is a former employee of ITT's Sheraton hotel chain and he currently serves as Derek Bok's vice president for administration. The Delta 2000 is a $2.2 million dollar computing system that Hall had installed in the basement of the Undergraduate Science Center last year...
...same week that Republican senators and conservative newspapers joined in the public outcry over corruption in Nixon's administration--the issue that McGovern tried unsuccessfully to mine throughout the campaign and that might have made him president if Watergate had broken open a year earlier...
This country is in far better shape now than when I was growing up. Conditions are not nearly as bad for the poor and the underprivileged. I remember in a town north of Yakima when a coal-mine union organizer came in one day. They grabbed him, tied him up and dragged him out of town behind a motorcycle. It was a bare-knuckles town, and that was the law. There's nothing like that any more today. America is much more integrated, integrated in the psychiatric sense, more mature, more tolerant. We face problems with a more adult...
...quickly overthrew the late Marxist President Salvador Allende in a bloody September coup, is struggling now with an infinitely tougher task: righting an economy that three years of maladroit socialistic experiments left in a shambles. When the generals grabbed power, inflation was roaring out of control; farm, factory and mine production were scraping bottom; Chile's banking and financial system had all but collapsed...
...BACH was only part of the Evensong's music. One of the anthems was Maurice Greene's Lord, let me know mine end. The Greene was almost funereal in quality and was lent a somber cast by the walking bass throughout the movement. The exceptional quality of the Choir's string accompanists was evident in their first entrance: they were even in their attack and in tune without the dead quality that comes from intonation obsession. The soprano soloists were well-matched and in good balance with the rest of the ensemble...