Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pass-fail has taken the curse off the requirement," Stein said last night. "Now no one will have to ruin his average with a bad grade in a language course." Both the German and Romance Language Departments voted in December to open all their elementary language courses to pass-fail students...
Seeing anti-war demonstrations form Vietnam, Sloan was afraid the Liberals were going to discredit themselves and ruin any chance of progressive domestic legislation. But even more disturbing was the feeling that the people who were protesting the war were "people I admired and respected," he says...
...Governor faces strong opposition. Last summer Dorchester residents were able to block the use of another site for the transit facilities near Codman St. in Dorchester. They feared that the yards would lower property values and ruin the neighborhood. Milton town officials contend that the yards would fill in valuable and scenic wildlife refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that...
...that I may live and work with the creme de la creme." That young man from Illinois had an academic rating of 2, and achievement scores over 780 in both American History and Chemistry. But his personal rating was 4, and he was rejected. "That kind of phrase can ruin you," Peterson says...
...Adolf Lohse, 65, German financial wizard and longtime (1945 until retirement in October) top executive of the Siemens Group, maker of all things electric; of a heart attack; in Neugrünwald, Germany. Senior member of the group's managing troika, Lohse masterminded Siemens' recovery from wartime ruin to second biggest in Germany (after Volkswagen), ranging the world's markets with everything from appliances to computers...