Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After a summer of increasingly bloody violence in South Africa, pressure for divestment mounted here and across the nation. In September, President Bok announced that Harvard had divested $2.8 million of its more than $400 million in South Africa-related stocks and that the University would fund internships for students in that nation through a $1 million endowment. Leaders of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), however, held a rally in October to push Harvard toward total divestment...
...those who get out, 60 percent end up back in jail, according to Ryder. But a Billerica study this past summer determined that only about 30 percent of those who got their GED's end up back at Billerica...
Recent events in the Middle East may force that choice upon American citizens of draft age and such a summer job will then be more than fiction. But even if the nation decides to wage war, the decision to fight must remain as personal as the choice of a summer job. An individual's position concerning a certain war's justness or morality must outweigh his committment to a collective national decision to fight. Because a soldier carries out the killing and destruction of the national decision to go to war, if he is not convinced a war is justified...
Three other local sporting goods stores--Herman's World of Sporting Goods, James F. Brine, and Beacon Hill Skate Shop--all report similar sharp rises in skateboard sales since the end of last summer...
However, since the middle of last summer, Forsyth says, skateboards have been in demand once again. He attributes some of this resurgence to the recent movie Back to the Future, which showed teen idol Michael J. Fox finessing his way out of tight situations on a skateboard...