Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter is the first modern President whose quotient of class seems to have gone dramatically down since his days as a candidate. Normally, the primary battles are considered times of intrigue and crude maneuvers, leading up to the White House, a place of enlarged distinction. In the Iowa farm homes and the New Hampshire grange halls Carter had class as he talked about his hopes for America. He still is impressive in the small groups that gather around him in the Cabinet Room. But his presidency is becoming tarnished by the antics of others and the fact that Carter...
...Francisco boasts a lot of awesome architecture: the towering headquarters of Transamerica Corp., which looks like an elongated pyramid; the severe, deep-carnelian granite Bank of America building; the hollowed-out Embarcadero Hyatt Regency, its interior a modern evocation of a Babylonian hanging garden. Bay City boosters will soon have another unusual building to talk about. Construction has just begun on the 19-story Northern California headquarters of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., which Architect William Pereira reckons is the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World...
...three years, the Krupp Foundation Chair in European Studies--endowed by the leading family in the German munitions industry--has remained unfilled. But this week there was an indication that KLAUS HILDEBRAND [left], a prominent expert on Nazi foreign policy, and professor of modern history at the University of Muenster in West Germany, may be moving into the job. Hildebrand confirmed that Dean Rosovsky offered him the chair during a meeting in Cambridge late last month. Although Hildebrand has since flown back to Germany and Dean Rosovsky has refused to comment on the matter, it seems likely that the professor...
...spoke those words is the leader of the National Front, Britain's fastest growing political party and a party which is successfully challenging the Liberals for third place on Britain's political rostrum. The National Front is a modern-day Nazi party, an avowedly racist and nationalist organization whose structure, tactics and goals all recall Hitler's National Socialism. Its surprising progress in recent local elections and by-elections is alarming Britain's political establishment, and provoking violent nationwide debate and confrontation...
Speaking on the topic of his recently published book, "The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe," Weinberg said that at its origin, the universe was composed solely of radiation and sub-atomic particles...