Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a remarkable week for James Earl Carter Jr. At its outset, the President heard that the wavering Senate might inflict a shattering blow to his prestige by rejecting the Panama Canal treaty; the next day it gave him instead a narrow but important victory. On Thursday fell the mournful first anniversary of the introduction of the energy program that Carter had once called the moral equivalent of war; the following day came news of a Senate compromise on gas deregulation and at last the possibility of a breakthrough for the energy program. On the economic front, the long grounded...
That sardonic explanation is as sound as any for the explosion of optimism that sent the long depressed stock market kiting more than 55 points in six trading days through last Thursday. The wild rally that started April 13 hit a peak of frenzy at the start of last week: on Monday, April 17, as whoops and cries echoed through the New York Stock Exchange and floor traders tossed torn-up paper in the air to celebrate, an unbelievable 63.5 million shares changed hands, and the Dow Jones industrial average spurted almost 15 points. Prices stumbled a bit the next...
...demonstration that started Thursday night ended yesterday with a day-long sit-in outside University Hall preventing administrators from entering. About 400 students circled the building yesterday morning at 9:30, and although their numbers dwindled as the day wore on, they had clearly made their point by the time they left...
After months of student unrest over Harvard's holdings in firms operating in South Africa, countless meetings of the Advisory Commitee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), two open hearings and several Corporation meetings on the subject, the Harvard Corporation announced its decision Thursday morning. The result hardly pleased students, thousands of whom took to the streets the same night in protest...
...group decided to slap Harvard back, sponsoring a torchlight march on Thursday night that 3500 people joined...