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Word: sexed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economist Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota noted: "We seem to have an accident-prone inflation." For example, the extra-cold winter has dulled the sex drive of sows. Because they have not produced as many piglets as usual, the price of pork chops is going up. Though the economy is vulnerable to further shocks of climate, biology or politics, the members of TIME'S bipartisan, multi-opinion board displayed a rare unanimity of views about what lies ahead for the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Here Comes the Recession | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...that matter, the Sex Pistols, with whom the Clash is continually compared, although, as Headon says, "we're nothing like the Sex Pistols. We don't set out to shock people through being sick onstage or through self-mutilation." Jones elaborates: "I never was one for sticking a pin in me nose." The Clash, though hardly elegant instrumentalists, makes far better crafted music than the Pistols ever did. The sheets of sound they let loose have the cumulative effect of a mugging, but the songs, full of threat and challenge, never mean to menace. They are, rather, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...largely symbolic gesture, Dean Fox announced last week a new phase in the College's young tradition of coed housing--the end of predetermined sex ratios for the undergraduate houses...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Numbers Game | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

When Harvard first decided to allow men and women to live in the same dorms in 1969, administrators kept the sex ratios at the Radcliffe Quad low--1.5 men for every woman--both to maintain tradition and to create a "warm, supportive atmosphere for women students who wanted that," Thomas Dingman '67, associate dean of the College, said last week...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Numbers Game | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...women to the Quad. Danguole Spakevicius '81, who filed a motion earlier this year with the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) asking for an end to the ratios, called the issue "more a matter of principle than anything else." She added she believes the abolition of the sex ratio will not alter the number of students who will choose to live at the Quad...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Numbers Game | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

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