Word: spins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegation to make an equal opportunity officer's head spin: A committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this week charged the University with violating affirmative action guidelines in the hiring of an individual who is now coordinating minority recruitment and admissions at the GSAS...
While we're on the subject of golf, the latest spin-off since the day when King James I ruled Scotland is frisbee golf. In brief, the players try to toss frisbees into baskets fastened to poles while avoiding the natural hazards that strew the course. Three free courses are enjoying heavy traffic in Loss Angeles Country. The one in Pasadena attracts 5000 players a week. The 18-hole low score...
...serious about this thing. This is a contest, with entries and winners and prizes and all. If you still have all those real tough 45s you used to spin every afternoon after school, then you better go get 'em. This isn't Fonzie-Fifties stuff, but Solid Gold Sixties and very early Seventies vinyl; the notes that used to make you park your carcass in front of the idiot box when Shindig came...
...world. It has to be, in order to produce a product that could compete in world markets. As a result, it provided almost no local employment. Even worse, the raw material (cotton fiber) had to be imported, because the local product was too short for the machine to spin into top-quality yarn...
...lower house of the Diet (the other loser: the Communists, who dropped 22 of their 39 seats). The chief beneficiaries of the voter uprising were three moderate reform groups: the Buddhist-backed Komeito (Clean Government Party), the Democratic Socialist Party and the New Liberal Club, a maverick L.D.P. spin-off dedicated to "rehabilitating conservatism...