Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brookings, an influential liberal Democrat and a member of TIME's Board of Economists, questions the social sensitivity of capitalism. The free market, he maintains, allows "the big winners to feed their pets better than the losers can feed their children," and if left to itself, "would sweep away all other values, and establish a vending machine society." Yet the market also permits decentralization of management, encourages experimentation and innovation, and limits the power of the state to transgress on personal freedoms; by doing so, it provides incentives for work and massive production that no other system can match...
Thus last week did the inexorable march of events sweep tiny Laos, to all intents and purposes, into the Communist camp on the heels of its neighbors in Indochina. So quickly had the Communist-led Pathet Lao consolidated their political and military power that even veteran observers of the sleepy, landlocked kingdom were surprised. "I thought they were going to draw it out," admitted a U.S. official. "But because of what happened in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, they saw no need to wait." Nonetheless, the end of the quarter-century war was typically Laotian. Another U.S. official described...
...directed toward college preparation, and some other subjects the students request that they can't take in their high schools. The recreational end of the program will include athletics, field trips, and camping expeditions. Some time each week will go to community projects: "We'll get 50 brooms and sweep the streets," Wong says. "It builds the kids' spirit, and helps the community at the same time...
...remained on the tower as the sole Bulldog victory of the day. But just before the Radcliffe squad departed. Sacks symbolically painted that over also, in addition to hoisting a broom on a Yale flagpole to signify a clean sweep. It was clear to all who was in fact number...
Harvard's two varsity boats, which will be vying to retain their best-in-the-East honors after last year's varsity sweep out at Worcester, have as many feelings toward the Sprints as there are oarsmen to articulate them...