Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island--On a field that looked disconcertingly similar to the ground above an overflowing septic tank, the Crimson Soccer J.V.s played valiantly before falling to Brown by a 2-0 score here yesterday...
...75th Infantry came from Fort Lewis, Wash. The exercises were the first large-scale test of "interoperability"-coordination of the somewhat different communications systems, tactics and equipment used by the alliance's armed forces. Thus U.S. Cobra helicopters, armed with TOW antitank missiles, provided cover for West German tank units and were directed to targets by West German officers. Old tricks were also polished, like dropping a Sheridan light tank from a low-flying C-130 transport plane...
Ever since New Deal days, the Brookings Institution has wielded immense influence in Washington's corridors of power as the nation's pre-eminent liberal think tank-to the discomfort of conservatives who respected its solidly researched studies of wide-ranging economic issues enough to wish that their side could produce equally good ones. Now it can, through the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. The Washington-based A.E.I., founded back in 1943, long languished in obscurity, but during the 1970s it has steadily gained enough intellectual weight to become a sort of Republican Brookings...
...ignorance of the diplomatic and Great Society failures of the '60s. Although the Kennedy School's new building, growing faculty and increasing enrollment are primarily products of recent years, the school's metamorphosis started in the mid-'60s. Following the example of the Rand Corporation, a private think tank, the government began to apply economic theory, systems analysis and other sophisticated techniques to governmental problems--creating a new demand for trained public servants. Bankers and lawyers were superseded by economists and political scientists, and in 1966 the Littauer School became the Kennedy School, offering more degrees, formulating its own curriculum...
...Freeway Park. Like Alph, Kubla Khan's sacred river, the Seattle cascade plunges through a chasm, this one measurable to man, down to a sunless picture window through which park visitors can watch traffic on the adjacent freeway underpass swim silently by like fish in a tank. That was one intent of the design-to drown out the downtown freeway's noise. "It's like action painting," Halprin explains. "My works are not fulfilled until they...