Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal, lyric dimension to folk music, cuts through the smugness and self-absorption that have characterized it for too long. The Roches share a kind of skeptical innocence that is delicate but far from fragile. Maggie and Terre Roche flirted with fame once before and have logged a fair portion of time in the psychic danger zone. "We went so far out there/ Everybody got scared," Terre Roche wrote in one song...
...Roches-Irish, Catholic, suburban, middle class-are the subject of a couple of the sisters' best songs and cast a long shadow over most of the rest. Their father, John A. Roche, developed and marketed a language-skills course on tape called Speechmaster, and spent a fair portion of his off-hours encouraging his daughters to sing. Maggie, at 27 the eldest of the sisters, started writing songs at the age of eight. She and Terre performed them first in the family living room in Park Ridge, N.J., then later on the back of a flat-bed truck...
Every Spring, B&G officials overhaul all University grounds, Keohan said. He added that all University faculties pay their portion of the maintenance costs...
Last year, the TVA, Mobil Oil, and United Nuclear Corporation submitted an environmental impact statement for a proposed uranium mine and mill complex in the eastern portion of the Navajo reservation. The BIA made arrangements for the lease in 1970, although Navajos living in the area never heard anything about the proposal until 1978. Mary C. Largo, a Navajo woman of the Dalton Pass Chapter (an area under lease), signed up as a plaintiff in the December 1978 lawsuit after drilling began on her land allotment without her permission. "I never saw any contract papers, I never put my thumbprint...
High rents and Proposition 13, which granted tax relief to property owners but not to renters, have stirred up California's tenants; they had appealed to landlords to pass on a portion of their tax savings to them, but many landlords refused to do so. As a consequence, Santa Monica enacted one of the stiffest control laws in the country and rolled all rents back to the levels of April 1978. Since November, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Davis and parts of Beverly Hills have voted for rent control. San Diego consumerists are agitating to get rent control on the ballot...