Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every day, many Harvard students pass Elsie's delicatessen on their way to and from classes. If anyone bothered to look above the awning that says "Delicious Roast Beef," they would notice the remnants of a sign that once read "Manter Hall School." Few of those who frequent Elsie's realize that the building above their heads has served as everything from a boys' prep school to a Harvard tutoring academy...
...agency. Helen Michaels, who has two teenage children, eventually went to the Social Security Administration to collect her husband's back social security payments. But the SSA told Mrs. Michaels that the money could not be transferred until her husband was accounted for. If there was still no sign of him seven years after his disappearance, the SSA said, she could ask a court to declare him dead. Then she would be eligible to collect his checks and receive widow's benefits...
...process of elections and certification will probably take months. The UFW will then face the problem of getting hostile growers to sign contracts at those companies where the UFW wins representation. The union is now calling on consumers across the country and around the world to boycott non-union products until the contracts are signed. Their call and their cause deserve support...
...describe various Rio Rancho plots. As he spoke, salesmen at the tables would jump up, shouting "Hold!" as if they had just sold the lot he was talking about. Their enthusiasm would be contagious, and since the land contracts were right there on the tables, guests would impulsively sign on the dotted line. In so doing, they committed themselves to purchases ranging from a few thousand dollars to a high of $11,000 for arid half-acre homesites that had cost AMREP about $90. The buyers were usually middle-and lower-class working people; a plot at Rio Rancho...
Moments later, Karen Lindsey maneuvered her way downfield on a scintillating rush. But the standout junior's bristling shot was wide of the mark. Coach Debbi Field beamed at the sudden shift in momentum, and termed the "collective push" a sign of times to come...