Word: plattsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine months of 1977, Quebec suffered a net loss of 30,622 people. Some nervous English Quebeckers who decided to stay deposited their savings at banks in such U.S. border cities as Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt. Last month a major uproar broke out when Canada's largest life insurance company, Sun Life Assurance Co. (assets: $5.5 billion), announced that it was moving its headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. After urgent personal pleas from Prime Minister Trudeau, Sun Life officials said that the firm and its 1,800 head-office employees would stay?for two more years...
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...Indian who does a war dance on the mound before each game. There is an endless variety of "Days": Bat Day, Ball Day, Helmet Day, T Shirt Day, Poster Day, Cushion Day, Sunglasses Day, Hot Pants Day, Wild West Day, Honor America Day, Latin America Day, A-Students Day, Plattsburgh Day. The day has also come when the baggy woolen uniforms of old are giving over to the pajama-like stretch-nylon duds worn by the Pittsburgh Pirates. In Oakland, Vida Blue & Co. turn out in uniforms of Kelly green and California gold with kangaroo-leather spikes dyed wedding-gown...
Colleges have coped with the problem in different ways. At Columbia, the local branch of the Movement for a New Congress was forced off campus, at M.I.T. the group left of its own volition, and at Princeton the M.N.C. national headquarters still occupies campus offices. At the Plattsburgh campus of the State University of New York, S.U.N.Y. trustees canceled a planned recess; similar plans are being reconsidered at Columbia and Rutgers. The faculties of Harvard and Williams also voted down student requests for time off. Said Harvard: "If the university accommodates its work or reshapes its goals to political purposes...