Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's basketball program is in severe trouble, it is nowhere better reflected than in the incredible number of close games the team has lost both this year and in recent history. It is a constant point of debate as to whether tight losses reflect bad luck or a lack of heart in a team, but with Harvard the frequency has become alarming to the point of realizing that there is indeed something very wrong...
CONSTRUCTION. About 3,200 contracts will be negotiated in the construction trades this year, most of them in the spring and summer. Construction contracts are drawn up locally and reflect local economic conditions. On the West Coast, for example, plumbers and electricians are in high demand and have been winning richer settlements than their brethren in the East. Such differentials could lead to tensions between labor and management in some areas. But the geographical diversity of construction negotiations makes their outcome hard to prophesy...
...once primary clients, the churches, and the Big Five. At one time, four-fifths of their graduates with the basic divinity degree went into church jobs or further study of religion; now less than half do. A surprising number simply drop out of organized religion-a defection that may reflect loss of faith and the shrinkage of the job market as the liberal Protestant churches continue their decline in membership. (Since 1966 the United Methodist, United Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches and the United Church of Christ have lost a total of 2.4 million members.) Meanwhile, the more conservative independent Evangelical...
...this week, when Ford collects his Government-green monthly checks, marked with his Social Security number (372-28-6832), he may reflect, al most like anybody else, about the difficulties of saving and the pangs of inflation - fortunately diminishing...
...Authority is spending $50 million installing them on one power plant-and the industry insists that they are unreliable. One possible reason for the utilities' attitude toward scrubbers: the power companies now can automatically pass along hikes in fuel costs to customers-but getting electric rates raised to reflect the cost of antipollution equipment takes much longer...