Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must foster lofty ideals and set high goals, work out a strategic plan, fully mobilize all positive factors and organize all our forces well." So said Fang Yi, Chi na's powerful but little-known Vice Premier and Minister of Science and Technology. The occasion was his announcement last year of China's audacious plan to overcome a lag of 15 to 20 years and by the year 2000 reach the scientific level of the advanced industrial world. Last week, while Teng Hsiao-p'ing politicked his way across the nation, Fang embarked on what...
...Rosenbaum, 32, is a former Village Voice staff member who protested Editor Clay Felker's 1974 takeover by ripping up his paycheck in the new owner's face (to which Felker is reported to have asked, "Who was that?"). In Murder, a Felkeresque press lord named Walter Foster loses his empire in an unfriendly takeover. Then, worse fate, he is displaced from his regular table at Elaine's by a younger publishing whiz, Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, making a cameo appearance under his own name. After a long exile, Foster returns unexpectedly one steamy August...
...classic Agatha Christie fashion, nearly everybody in Elaine's had motives to blue-pencil Foster: unforgotten literary feuds, unhealed editorial schisms, unfavorable reviews, stolen story ideas, purloined wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics of hard-drugging Rolling Stone Writer Hunter Thompson and a freelancer named Rosenbaum-has much to do with Watergate. Many journalists consider that scandal their calling's finest hour. Foster, writes Rosenbaum, "caught the crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought...
...first period, the Bruins had few problems keeping the Islanders in check. Dwight Foster set up veteran Wayne Cashman, who rifled a wrist shot past Resch to put Boston on the board, and three New York power plays failed miserably...
...Madison Square Garden in March, 1968, because the roof of the Philadelphia Spectrum had blown off. 37. No. He did, however, contribute a few shifts for the Bruins in a 1955 playoff loss to Montreal. 38. Larry Robinson of Montreal and Dave Schultz, then of Philadelphia. 39. Dwight Foster. 40. Johnny Bucyk, on January 5, 1974. 41. Gilles Gratton. 42. John Hynes of Harvard. 43. The St. Louis Blues. 44. Garry Howatt, New York Islanders, 1973-74 season, 204 minutes. 45. Forbes Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs, 219 minutes, in 1968-69. 46. Chicago Black Hawks vs. Toronto Maple Leafs...