Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kathy Boudin, Bernardine Dohrn, Cathy Wilkerson, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones-outraged their colleagues by willingly appearing in Director Emile de Antonio's film Underground. Dohrn later had second thoughts. Said she in a statement: "The portrayal of ourselves as gentle, reasonable, well-educated and white was a move to disassociate ourselves from the alleged 'extremism' of prison struggles, the Black Liberation Army, the Symbionese Liberation Army and the F.A.L.N. [the militant Puerto Rican nationalist group...
...compared with only 239 the previous year, were ordered to repeat their grades. What is now known as the Greensville experiment was well under way. In Owen's innovative program, students held back because of below-average performance do not sit in their old classrooms while other classmates move ahead. They are assigned to new rooms and teachers, and usually grouped with children of similar ages, while they begin a special remedial course of study that focuses on basic reading, writing and math. The system also offers as a combined incentive and consolation something called "partial promotion." A student...
...produced in one state and sold in another, but let the price rise to $1.75 per 1,000 cu. ft. from a top of $1.47 now. It would also extend controls to gas produced and sold in the same state. The House agreed, but there is a strong move in the Senate to take off all controls and let the price of natural gas rise to any level the market would stand...
...concern was a feeling of being abandoned by the press. "Let them move on to their next thing," said Jill Ruckleshaus, former head of the U.S. International Women's Year Commission. "They've done us no good." Boston University Professor Sally Lunt dramatically accused the press of "gearing up for a women-against-women bloodbath" at this fall's National Women's Conference in Houston...
...compound this problem, Boston is unusually small for a major city. Its population of 660,000 occupies an area of land with little room for development. As the middle and upper classes grew, the suburbs became the only place to move. Boston is a white working class community where people consider themselves members of a neighborhood, not of a city. The median income is $9000 in an area which is 10 per cent more expensive to live in than the rest of the country. Consequently, Leary blames the city's racial troubles on underlying class tensions. The street corner troublemakers...