Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great power forward for the '74 NCAA champ NC State Wolfpack, the big guy is a bullpen artist still active today...
Cesar Chavez, President of the United Farmworkers of America (UFW), asked state union officials to support a boycott of non-union lettuce grown in California...
...mass has much of a political message, but that in itself constitutes enough of a political "position" to infuriate the Soviet authorities, who kicked Voinovich out the Writers' Union in 1974. He's no fiery dissident like Solzhenitsyn, waving a flag of traditional Christian values over the atheist Soviet state. His dissatisfaction with Soviet life comes across less as an ideological jihad than as truculent skirmishing. In some ways, it's more effective for just that reason--we know Voinovich has neither icon to worship nor axe to grind...
...carbarn, nobody was selling. Almost a dozen neighborhoods rejected the agency's proposals, refusing to change local zoning laws. As each neighborhood turned the MBTA down, frustration levels rose, Crane says. By 1970, however, rounds of negotiations with Boston officials proved fruitful, a site was secured, and the state spent $53 million to transplant the yards...
...state and library officials lit up their cigars too early. Just when they thought the battle was over, a group of Cambridge residents launched a counter-offensive. The group charged that the library, because it contained both a museum and the archives, would bring more tourists, scholars and cars into already-congested Harvard Square. "A distinction was made as to the relative attractiveness of a museum versus a library," City Manager James Sullivan explains. "From the beginning, the community was divided on the issue." During the early 1970s, tensions within the community rose steadily until a major fight developed...