Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEY STEPPED OUT of Jefferson Hall into the fog, dazed and crick-necked. The midyear examination was over and they had made it halfway through Economics 10, Harvard's most popular course. In the eerie, unseasonal mist, indifference curves and isocosts danced before them. Maybe "popular" is the wrong word...
...Kinshasa to Moscow and London there was a flurry of diplomatic maneuverings that raised hopes a negotiated settlement might still be possible. One push came from a group of Black African leaders, including Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who have already recognized the Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). The group was reportedly urging M.P.L.A. President Agostinho Neto to enter into negotiations with the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), which still controls the southern half of the country. Britain and France were also engaged in separate but coordinated...
...immediate source of concern is the Social Security trust fund, which in the popular mind has become analogous to the reserves insurance companies set aside to make sure that they can pay claims in the future. The Social Security trust fund now stands at $44 billion, but last year it dropped by $1.8 billion as Social Security tax collections fell behind benefits paid out. This year benefit payments of $78.2 billion are expected to run $4.4 billion ahead of income, pulling the trust fund down to less than $40 billion. By 1981, according to projections in the President...
...office in less than two weeks. If it does as well in subsequent releases-it is scheduled to open in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles on March 10, and in approximately 40 additional cities by the end of April-it will be not only one of the most popular foreign films since Last Tango in Paris, but a healthy hit even by Hollywood standards...
...volume of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedic, that great compendium of information and Enlightenment opinion, had appeared in Paris. The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica began appearing in Edinburgh in 1768. The colonists knew and valued these works; indeed, I'Encyclopédie was among the most popular of all the books imported for colonial libraries. Information was instrumental to human happiness; education was meant to serve progress and political stability; and news, after all, was only one category of information, subject to the same laws of controversy and debate. The major issues...