Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman, Scott Van Duyne '80, sitting in the upper stands with a group of upperclassmen, said he found the pre-game spectacle "fascinating," but added that "I don't like all this garbage over here," indicating the groundwork for Harvard's multimillion-dollar athletic complex behind Soldiers Field stadium...
...Life-Style. Sociologists and demographers can debate forever just where the boundaries of this huge middle class fall. Some experts feel that fully 75% of all Americans are now middle-or upper-class. With its growing affluence, the American middle class practices a life-style that not so long ago was the preserve of the wealthy: skiing, boating, vacations abroad, tennis-and even divorce...
...that the poor and disadvantaged fail to show their strength at the polls. Political Analyst Richard Scammon, coauthor (with Ben Wattenberg) of The Real Majority, estimates that as many as 80% of the 80 million to 90 million Americans who will vote in this election could be middle-or upper-class. What is more, a Gallup poll released last May showed that 47% of those surveyed consider themselves to be right of center, whatever their party label...
Still, compared with the raucous Republicans, Carter was making good progress preparing for the campaign. His national campaign staff-now consisting of 325 paid workers but scheduled to grow to 700 or 800 by the fall-has moved into new headquarters: three upper floors of the 24-story Colony Square building on Atlanta's Peachtree Street...
...defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper lip, and sometimes the palate...