Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper alternative energy source for him, but does keep in touch with some relatives in Arizona who are building solar homes. That, says Tompkins, gazing out his office window at the Exxon building and a forest of other high-rise spires reaching toward the sun, just might be one way to win the oil game...
Cambridge city officials said they were sure, though, that the University owes money to the city. "The way electricity prices have been going up, it could be a pretty substantial amount of money," a spokesman for Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday. He added the city manager as beginning an inspection of Harvard-owned streets to determine just how much the charge will come...
Everything fell, and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness. The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. --John Hersey, Hiroshima...
Formed out of a meeting at the Harvard Faculty Club in 1973, the members of the Boston Study Group met weekly for four years, talking, writing, criticizing, trying to find a way to "re-orient American foreign policy" away from future Hiroshimas and Vietnams. In The Price of Defense, they have made sense of the senseless--they have brought order to the chaos of American foreign and military policy. The present system rests on the assumption that more military spending means a safer nation, and it fails to subordinate military spending to the government's foreign policy goals. The system...
...look back, especially in baseball," Brown went on, furrowing his sandy eyebrows and looking off at the clouding-over sky. "You can't look at this mistake or that loss and say, well, it could have happened another way. The way we're playing now is the way we were playing last year. We could easily win these next five games, and beat Brandeis...