Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door. They dragged one of the two women from the river and collapsed from overexposure. A month later they were to be commended for saving one woman's life. Not every day in the life of a University policeman is that memorable, but the fast response was a sign of a new and professional force--one that has created tension between the police and the Harvard administration...
...released album called Lucky Day opens with a modified disco tune that flirts with frivolity. But the record closes out on a sardonic anthem in the old style, England My England. The song discusses the shortsighted lives of Lazy Eddie ("If the sea was beer he'd probably sign the pledge") and his benighted girlfriend and gives them their own little marching song: "England my England, my England, my my/ We are your children, oh England...
Some seeming nonessentials, however, seem to remain much in demand. Says Lewis Katcher, a research director at the Sutro & Co. brokerage firm in San Francisco: "Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports...
...year, though much of that increase simply reflected higher prices. Moreover, Americans are still piling on installment debt at the brisk rate of $5 billion a month. Indeed, by the end of June they were in the hole for a record total of $292.5 billion, which is hardly a sign of consumer panic...
Harvard Assistant Professor Phin Cohen, an M.D. and biochemist, was studying human blood chemistry under a $200,000 research grant from the National Institutes of Health in 1972, when an aide to his department chairman asked him to sign a form. Innocuously titled "Report of Expenditures," it was designed to explain how Cohen's federal research money had been spent. Trouble was, the copy shown Cohen was blank. He asked for a list of expenditures. No, he was told, other researchers customarily signed blank forms. Administrators filled in the items later. Cohen persisted, and was warned by the School...