Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southie was heartened by President Ford's statement at his press conference last week that "the court decision ... was not the best solution to quality education in Boston ... I respectfully disagree with the judge's order." But elsewhere in Boston, the remark was widely attacked as insensitive and irresponsible. The mayor accused the President of trying to "taunt this city into becoming another Little Rock...
...linebacker Chris Ecker, tackle Gordon Graham, and middle guard Lou Lauricella, it limited Tufts to 107 yards in total offense, and caused coach Chet O'Neil to remark that "this could be the best defensive team I've seen in my three years...
Shortly thereafter, Eisaku Sato, former prime minister of Japan and one of the officials Cohen mentioned, reportedly told the Japanese press that Cohen's remark was slanderous and that he was considering possible legal action...
...coming of one spring to another, although the true time of all events seems to be rooted in Fellini's imagination. The look of clothes, the political talk and the movies people go to see fix the period in the middle to late 1930s, although a casual remark or reference can alter the time abruptly 20 years into the past or future. There are no fixed boundaries here, just as there is no firm central character. A young man called Titta appears frequently and serves as a kind of unifying autobiographical surrogate for the director. But Amarcord...
...dried up commissions and devastated the brokerage business. Last year the number of registered representatives shrank from 40,000 to 36,000, and layoffs have accelerated gravely since then. Many salesmen are forced to take part-time jobs as bartenders, models and retail clerks. Yet understandably, Greenspan's remark touched sensitive nerves...