Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...referees that kept the score close at halftime, for after Brown had hit Wayne Moore at the Bruins' five-yard line with the clock registering single digits, the men in stripes forgot about the game and concentrated on winding their watches back an hour in accordance with Eastern Standard Time...
...Love Me (Let Me Know)," another of the album's country selections, Olivia again tries to put the moves on her audience. The song starts off like any standard country tune, with the cliche of a twanging guitar, but instead of hearing some powerful down-home voice, we hear Olivia's sighing...
...F.A.L.N. is the latest standard-bearer of violent Puerto Rican nationalist tradition that goes back to 1868, when machete-carrying rebels briefly proclaimed a republic in the Spanish colonial town of Lares. In the 1940s and '50s, followers of Pedro Albizu Campos not only bombed buildings and murdered officials on the island but also brought terrorism to the U.S.: gunmen tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950, and in 1954 shot up the House of Representatives.* The F.A.L.N. first appeared in August 1974, when it claimed responsibility for a bombing in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. The group...
...Puerto Rico, terrorist activity has been declining, partly because of public aversion to the violence. In last year's gubernatorial election, radical independence parties polled less than 6% of the vote. Buoyed by a U.S.-aided rising standard of living, most Puerto Ricans-despite currently high unemployment-seem to be content with their ties to the mainland; at a conference of island editors and publishers in Dorado last week, Puerto Rico's Governor Carlos Romero Barceló felt confident enough about bedrock pro-U.S. sentiment among Puerto Ricans to call for statehood. Yet the island...
...slots for them in each class. By 1974, the university was using application forms that asked for racial identification; the results made it clear that only blacks, Chicanes, American Indians and Asians need apply for the 16 places. The university never denied that by all the standard criteria-grades, test scores, benchmark totals-Bakke's record was better than that of many minority students enrolled. The special 16 in the 1973 class scored average aptitude percentile rankings of 35 in science and 46 in verbal skills; Bakke scored 97 in science and 96 in verbal skills...