Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular week for boycotts. The Faculty Council Wednesday considered possible guidelines for University policy on student consumer boycotts. The guidelines would force the University to stop purchasing a product if a "substantial number" of users boycott the product, and if the University can find a substitute at no extra cost...
...move seemed a popular one. In an editorial that April, The New York Times cited Harvard's establishment of an Afro-American Studies major as "a striking example of its flexibility and responsiveness to student demands...
...findings because they came from only 132 people, were gathered a decade or more ago, and will not be reported in full until the next Masters and Johnson book, Human Sexual Inadequacy II, due in 1981. Still, the preliminary findings show that fantasies of forced sex were the most popular fantasies among lesbians and the second most popular among homosexual men, heterosexual men and heterosexual women...
...inordinate number of customers appear to be feasting-or fasting, as the case may be-on the same simply prepared dish. Fish if it happens to be Monday night, beef on Tuesday, lamb if Wednesday. Peculiar? Not to these diet devotees. They are merely following the latest popular weight-loss regimen: the Scarsdale Diet...
...violinist criticized today's popular music. "Every six months it's something different--either punk, hunk, stunk or bunk," Stern said...