Word: cites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and his aides are filling the air with tirades against the Shah as a "U.S. puppet," a Hitlerian "criminal" who tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of his subjects, a thief who looted Iran of untold billions. At the other extreme, the Shah's defenders cite the praises heaped on him by seven U.S. Presidents, beginning with Harry Truman, who lauded the Shah's "courage and farsightedness," and ending with Jimmy Carter, who told the Shah in 1977, "Iran is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world. This...
Many of Swift's acquaintances, however, cite her resourcefulness in tough situations, like the embassy crisis...
...stated that these French groups are "proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich...New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley and Edward O. Wilson." A report in the New York Times (Sept. 26, 1979) on the assassination of a French-Jewish leftist, remarked about the "emergence of a group of intellectuals calling themselves the New Right who argue that there...
Marina Whitman, the newly appointed chief economist of General Motors, I claims that she can almost cite the fateful day when the men who run New York City's banks declared: "O.K., fellas, we've got to let them in." Them are American women, and it was only half a dozen years ago that they began to be admitted, little by little, to the executive establishment. Whitman knows because when she meets groups of bankers, she sees more and more women junior executives, poised for that big leap up to higher management. But almost...
...sought it out as a first-hand experience rather than accepting passively what was flashed up on the projector or dished out in the anthologies. The guardians of the humanities do little to convince undergraduates of the importance of their subjects, and indeed do not seem very worried. To cite just one example, when a visitor lectures at the Science Center on constipation in worms or some such subject a vast lecture hall is packed, but when a visiting scholar lectures on some aspect of the humanities there are almost never any undergraduates present, the audience being limited to twenty...