Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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To convince diehard objectors, state officials launched a re-examination of the traditional notion that "it is not yet socially acceptable for a girl to defeat a boy." Now the results are in and varsity sexism is on the way out. More than 100 New York high schools accepted the...
What happens when a philanthropist wants to help activist students? Take the case of John D. Rockefeller III. Long concerned about the gap between businessmen and young people, he set up a task force to advise him. Then last week he appeared at Massachusetts' newly opened Hampshire College to...
Rockefeller backed up his conclusion with an offer of $25,000 to a consortium of students and faculty members from Hampshire and the nearby campuses of Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Massachusetts. The money was to pay expenses while the consortium decided on a social-improvement project...
At that, the student members of the consortium began pushing him. Suspicious that Rockefeller was doing his thing and not theirs, they protested that they had not had time to consider the gift properly−and turned it down. They might reconsider, they said, after the matter was aired in...
Reacting to charges that leaded gasolines are a prime source of air pollution, the Buffalo city council has adopted the nation's first anti-lead ordinance. Starting next September, all service stations in the city must have at least one pump for low-leaded gas. In 1976, the sale...