Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short way up Huntington Avenue, the Boston Symphony is also starting to feel the pinch, although in a much smaller way. That orchestra still mangoes to meet its $51/2 million budget, but not without added fundraising and dipping into unreserved capital funds. Season ticket sales have taken a slight fall, because, in the words of an orchestra spokesman, "When the economy is bad, some people hold off renewing." Nonethe less, BSO concerts, normally close to selling out, and radio and television revenue helps take up the slack...
East-West trade last year accounted for only 3.9% of the world's $273 billion flow of goods. Slight as it seems, the figure is extremely important politically. While the leaders of the Communist countries would certainly resist any attempt by the tender sword to slice into their control at home, they are nonetheless prepared to make diplomatic gestures in order to enhance trading opportunities with the West. The Soviet willingness to reach an accommodation regarding West Berlin (see THE WORLD) and the cordial treatment accorded France's President Georges Pompidou on his recent visit to Moscow reflected...
...increase is needed to make up for half of an expected tuition and board/room fee increase of $300-$400, and because even with a slight reduction from 1974, the class of 1975 will include 75 more scholarship students than the graduating class of 1971. This latter increase, Peterson said, "reflects our success in reaching financially poor students from white blue-collar families as well as from black and other cultural minorities." Almost half the current freshman class is on scholarship...
Whatever Harvard's chances to win are, they will be minimal if a slight injury to Spengler flares up during the race. Monday he reinjured the hip which forced him to miss the end of the 1969 season, and he has taken the week off. "It's just about on the verge of tearing," teammate Bob Seals said yesterday. It appears that it will not hinder him today, but no one is sure...
...enlightenment doesn't hurry up, it may indeed be "like flowers pushing up through a concrete pavement," only a sad, slight "greening of America...