Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia University professor Lawrence A. Cremin gave his speech, entitled "Popular Schooling and Its Discontents," as the first of three speeches he will deliver here as part of the Burton/Inglis Lecture Series...
Jewett said the Moores were "wonderful masters" who were popular in the house. He added that their decision to leave was personal, saying they had no bad feelings about Dunster House...
Leveraged buyouts are an increasingly popular, though controversial, method of taking over companies. The deals--which included the recent, largest-ever takeover of RJR-Nabisco by a limited partnership in which Harvard invested--buy out stockholders in a company using borrowed funds worth up to 80 percent of the buyout price. Only about 20 percent of the investment generally comes in the form of cash up front, which means the company ends up assuming a large debt once the sale is completed...
...popular uprising. There are riots everywhere. They are all furious," said Metropolitan Police Inspector Jose Lara Montilla, who commanded a police unit armed with shotguns in downtown Caracas...
British investigators said reconstruction of a baggage container provided evidence that the radio-cassette player may have been put on board with luggage in Frankfurt. The evidence further pointed to a radical Syria-based group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Only two months before the Pan Am bombing, during a raid on suspected PFLP-GC terrorists, West German police found a Toshiba Boombeat portable radio that held 10.5 oz. of plastic explosives. An FAA report on the discovery noted that the device "would be very difficult to detect by normal X-ray inspection, indicating that...