Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, especially for those on the left, to end this myopia of selective indignation and negate their own credentials or claims to be the defenders of "liberation," "emancipation," and the desire that "the international" be the human race? Let us have a single standard of morality, revolutionary and otherwise. --Daniel Bell Professor of Sociology
...notching 23 goals or more for the fourth time this season, the Crimson pushed its season goal total to 224, easily eclipsing the previous school standard of 216, set in a longer season back...
...only drama came in the first eight minutes, during which the Crimson miraculously failed to score, and in the final minutes, when Faught reentered the contest with 10 points, one shy of the school standard...
When the Soviet interceptorshalf a dozen hot, 1,800-m.p.h. Sukhoi-15s−approached the 707, their pilots apparently did not know what to do. Radio contact was never established. None of the standard international signals to land, such as lowering wheels and turning on landing lights, were given. Instead, U.S. officials say, one of the Sukhoi-15s fired two missiles at the plane; the first hit above the left wing, while the second missed entirely. The attack killed a Korean businessman and a Japanese tourist and depressurized the fuselage, forcing the pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, to begin...
DIED. Jacques Léon Rueff, 81, free-market economist who helped Charles de Gaulle put France on the road to financial reform after 50 years of inflation and deterioration of the franc; in Paris. A firm advocate of the gold standard as an economic foundation for all Western countries, Rueff in 1958 carried out a drastic reduction in borrowing, the removal of nearly all quota restrictions for international trade and most significantly, the creation of a new franc (worth 100 old francs), which helped restore France's balance of trade and built up its gold reserves...