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Word: whether (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competing with fireworks. Manhattan's Central Park was packed with almost a quarter of a million people last week as the New York Philharmonic exploded into John Philip Sousa and giant skyrockets burst above the band shell. A festival is Chicago Secretary Janice Simpson puzzling over whether she should go hear Lonnie Listen Smith at the Miller beer Jazz Stage or Muddy Waters at the Olympia beer Blues Stage, playing at almost the same time at ChicagoFest, where more than 500,000 trooped to the city's old brick and metal Navy Pier last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summer, U.S.A. | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Questions about whether a quick federal fix is right-and will be enough The Carter Administration decided last week that now was the time to come to the aid of the nation's most beleaguered major company. After weeks of rising pressure for a federal fix for the multiplying problems of Chrysler Corp., Treasury Secretary G. William Miller produced-and Jimmy Carter approved -a Government bailout. It was designed to prevent the nation's No. 3 automaker (1978 sales: $13.6 billion) from sliding into a bankruptcy that could have put many thousands out of work and sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler's Crisis Bailout | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...concentrator who graduated last spring said this month, "There is evidence of a very high turnover and very little consistency within the department. No secretary knows whether a course will be taught from year to year, which leads to student insecurity...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Southern Resigns as Head Of Afro-American Studies | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Lamont reports that Harvard's defenses are still basically sound. "The thing that struck me most about Harvard was that it wasn't knocked askew by one single problem...Harvard seems to have all the problems, but for some reason they deal with them better. I don't know whether they spend more time, or they're smarter, or whether it's the fact that they're simply Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speaking for Himself | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...spare to run to the Coop or see friends, and your whole world revolves around the Union and the Science Center. It's entirely possible to wake up on a Monday and realize that, for the past four days, you have been working so feverishly you had no idea whether it was day or night, and all that time is merely a monochromatic blur...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: The Great Escape | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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