Word: ago
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...things have improved in the deep South. Two years ago black people couldn't walk on the main street in Camden, the county seat of Wilcox County. Now they can. This is the level to which progress has been made...
...three ex-students and SDS members were suspended a year ago after they and about 50 others entered University Hall and held Dean May in his office to demand that the painters' helpers be promoted to full painter status. At that time, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities ruled that during their terms of absence, the students could not appear anywhere on the campus without obtaining official permission...
...past, the project was greatly assisted by TIME'S Board of Economists, who lent their vast expertise at an all-day session with Church and his colleagues in the Business section. As a matter of fact, notes Senior Editor Marshall Loeb, "one year ago our board was saying that inflation would be a more persistent problem than anyone thought at that time. Now, much to our regret as citizens, their prediction has come true...
...Nixon Administration's epidemic of exits has apparently infected the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. Only 17 months ago Egeberg was widely viewed as a man who could heal the wounds left by the White House's rejection of Dr. John Knowles, the controversial Bostonian who was originally slated to get the job. But last week all signs indicated that Egeberg will be ousted from his key post in the Health, Education and Welfare Department some time around the first of the year...
...tall, affable Democrat, Egeberg has been an Administration outsider from the start. In appearances before congressional committees, he has often damned Nixon health programs with less than faint praise. Six months ago, he publicly questioned whether the White House knew what was going on in the health field...