Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this country," says Alex Haley, "we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have?where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people...
BACK IN THE DAYS of antiquity, when Hippocrates taught medicine, it was a sin for a doctor to treat patients with anything much stronger than a shot of honey and water or a dose of strong laxative. But a couple of millenia later, upstart science started to push treatment past the limits prescribed by the Father of Medicine. The discovery of germs in the late 1800s finally toppled most of Hippocrates' cautions. Lab men found drugs that could enter the body and destroy the vile little creatures where they did their dirty work. Disease was something to be attacked without...
...contest will undoubtedly be defense. Another performance like that exhibited against the Eagles will be needed to push sixth-ranked Harvard higher in the standings...
...peace initiative was the result of intense behind-the-scenes activity by Western European governments and the new Carter Administration. Noting that the meeting took place while Vice President Mondale was in Europe, one Western diplomat declared: "It is a big push by the Carter-Mondale-Vance team. They are coming on like gang-busters." At week's end the betting was that former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford would be named to follow up the historic Makarios-Denktas opening. It could not hurt that (like Walter Mondale) Clifford has 13 letters in his name...
...June, Atlantic Records put up a billboard on Sunset Strip to push the Rolling Stones album Black and Blue; it showed a bound woman saying, "I'm 'Black and Blue' from the Rolling Stones -and I love it!" A new organization, called Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), protested to Atlantic, which took down the billboard. Now WAVAW is demanding that Atlantic, Warner Brothers and Elektra clean up their album covers, but the companies are stonewalling. Says Warner Bros. Publicity Director Bob Merlis: "If a group wants a gorilla on the cover, they get a gorilla...