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...Allende had led to 600% inflation and riots over food shortages. He sold 400 ailing state-owned companies, ended price controls and most state subsidies, and encouraged foreign trade by slashing import tariffs from almost 100% to an average of 10%. The resulting economic boom encouraged most Chileans to overlook Pinochet's repressive campaigns against leftists, in which as many as 10,000 were killed and up to 150,000 were jailed. In 1980 Chilean voters approved by 67% a new constitution that allowed Pinochet to stay in power until 1989, and quite possibly longer...
...Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder--whose Division I squad will take an 11-3-1 record and a seven-game winning streak into today's game--knows her squad can't afford to overlook the young Northwestern team. Kleinfelder notes it's just one loss and it'll be wait til next year. "It's one game at a time now," she says...
Rockwell, it seems, is trying to overlook elements of traditionalism in our music the structures that are an essential part of the blues, folk, and rock. Bur tradition and form are as essential to our music as radical experimentation; no music can possibly escape the culture from which is emerges. Rockwell's discussion of serialism--a non-traditional musical system championed by Arnoid Schoenberg--is prefaced by the revealing remark. "But it was serialism more than populism that impeded the evolution of truly American music." Rockwell can't decide which side he is on, the side of serialist Milton Babbitt...
...think it's terrific," said Philip K. Thayer, a student at the Graduate School of Education. "I did most of [my returns] myself, but I went to VITA to make sure I didn't overlook anything, especially exemptions...
...most forcibly against America. As the attractive star of a radical "antiparty" party that disdains celebrity, she is the frequent subject of glossy articles and the constant target of photographers. Petra Kelly, 35, the feisty, fiery gamin who speaks as the uncrowned leader of the Greens, is hard to overlook...