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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the ratings are a bit obvious. Since the average daily population of a cemetery, not to mention the total daily population and the peak instant population, are low, the department rated it the most desirable non-profit use for a neighborhood...
Rude Boy, filmed in 1978 at the peak of punk, uses an extreme of European minimalist filmmaking technique, allowing little storytelling. The film offers, also, the most accomplished interaction between documentary footage and staged events since Medium Cool, although Clash fans aren't likely to care much. The band members fought distribution for a while, sensing that they might be revealed in an awkward stage of their career...
Only a few buyers will actually miss Iran's supplies. Under the Shah, the country was the second largest OPEC producer after Saudi Arabia; but lack of maintenance, spare parts and skilled workers since the revolution cut production from a 1974 peak of 6 million bbl. a day to 1.5 million. Of this, only 700,000 bbl. were being exported. Still, customers like Rumania, India and Spain, which have continued to receive shipments on the order of 150,000 bbl. a day, will now have to turn to different sources for their crude...
Meanwhile, all the Northeast, including Cambridge, suffered as industry went South in search of cheap, unorganized labor. The exodus to the suburbs also shrunk Cambridge from a population peak of nearly 130,000 to about 100,000. But Cambridge fared better than many other cities; MIT and Harvard attracted a number of electronics, engineering and research and development firms to help ease the sudden loss of jobs...
While the Betty Freidans and Gloria Steinems stole the limelight and the headlines during the peak of the women's movement, these women watched from the sidelines, wondering if Women's Lib would ever have any relevance to them. But now they are speaking out. And they think what they have to say could greatly affect American society...