Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farm workers asking their friends to answer yet another call for support? "Because what began as a traditional economic dispute between labor and management has turned into another attempt by growers to crush the union." UFW President Cesar Chavez says. "Because agribusiness has not really accepted the idea of free collective bargaining. Because many growers still hope to destroy...
...guys from her dorm to join her on a short run. Expecting a leisurely jog along the banks of the Charles, they accepted. Somewhere between Harvard Yard and MIT they realized that when Forman said "run" she meant exactly that. Unfortunately the same couldn't be said for her idea of "short...
...idea of investing in this money market is hardly new, but the minimum stakes are so hefty that trading used to be done only by rich people, corporations and institutions looking to park their idle cash. This discrimination has been ended by the swelling number of money funds that have been formed by mutual fund companies and brokerage firms to pool small investors' assets. Since the returns rise along with surging interest rates-and the highest bank prime lending rate rose to 15¼% last week-money market funds are booming. About 75 such funds now handle nearly...
...time, it was to lie fallow for many years. Students were forever proposing theories in a frenetic attempt to account for the many contradictions in physics; Glashow's was regarded as just another prospect. "I was very proud of the paper," its author fondly recalls, "but I had no idea of its import. If we'd been smarter, we'd have realized as early as 1964 how important it was. But we were stupid. I had to import two foreigners to figure...
...around Cambridge, City Council candidates are worried. They spend all day courting rumors, but still have no idea how they're doing. "I could get thousands of votes--I could get almost none," one candidate mourned last week. "We're all in the eye of the storm," council incumbent Mary Ellen Preusser added last week. Like the racetrack, everyone else is in the dark too. "More people have given me more theories in the last week than I can remember," one city observer said Friday. "And none of them were right," he added...