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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power plant opponents explained their legal initiatives to stop the project to students and handed out copies of their "people's injunction," which states that the Harvard power plant "will pollute our air, ruin our health, and we will pay for it in taxes and hospital costs...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Forty Power Plant Opponents Protest in Front of Mass Hall | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...borne in mind, and he must be left with ample space in which to maneuver with dignity. Driven into a corner, the Afrikaner will take up arms and will leave a trail of destruction all along the way. What is more, he will leave this country in chaos and ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Qoboza--a Role for the U.S. | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...other manufacturing process is quite like it. Only a single speck of dust can ruin a chip, so work must be done in "clean rooms," where the air is constantly filtered and workers are swathed in surgical-type garb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: The Art of Chip Making | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Hollywood summoned the actor early on. L.B. Mayer, the head of MGM. supposedly broke down in tears when Clift said: "Your scripts are bad, Mr. Mayer, and I don't want to be typecast -that'd ruin me." Finally, when he did go West for Red River, it was on his own, precedent-setting terms, and he did not have to sign the standard seven-year contract that had hobbled so many earlier stars. His best parts came in the early '50s, in A Place in the Sun with his friend Elizabeth Taylor, and in From Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sunny Boy | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...they've been too inconsistent and their schedule is too difficult. Northeastern has a long heritage of non-playoff hockey teams, so why ruin it this season...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: ECAC Hockey Into the Homestretch: Harvard Saddles Up | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

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