Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February, with back-to-back blizzards and a winter long record 87 inches of snow. For more than a month the city that worked became the city that did not work. The snow was not removed. Residents, unable to use their cars on the drifted streets, waited in subzero cold for elevated trains or buses that never came. Yet every night, there was Bilandic on television, proclaiming that everything was fine, that the situation was under control...
...awaited referendum on "devolution," the Labor government's plan to transfer authority in health, education, housing and other matters from the Parliament in Westminster to regional assemblies to be established in Edinburgh and Cardiff. What prompted Labor's initiative was not a question of soul but of cold politics. Though the Nationalists had been campaigning for greater independence for years, they never won much attention until 1974, when the Scottish party won in Scotland a surprising 30% of the vote in general elections and took over eleven seats in Parliament. By then Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party...
Marius counters that he does not believe teachers should be cold, but rejects as unprofessional the attitude that "the most important thing teachers can do is talk to students about their problems...
...except for one tradition-orchestrated near upset of B.U. in the opening round of the Beanpot, the realities came, cold, consistent, and impossible to overlook. They came in setbacks to perennial triumph material like Northeastern (twice), St. Lawrence and Yale (twice), in an 11-3 Son-of-Sam job to Cornell, and in several ambiguous one-goal encounters...
...survey consists of 37 questions, which center around problems ranging from cold bathrooms to opinions on advanced standing...