Sentences with phrase «early 1970s»

The first fly mutants to show altered circadian rhythms were identified in the early 1970s by Ron Konopka and Seymour Benzer of the California Institute of Technology.

In the early 1970s, astronomers discovered that space was full of complex organic molecules, some of them forming part of the comets and meteorites that occasionally crash - land on Earth.

Black holes were a subject ripe for investigation in the early 1970s.

Global Surveyor also returned tantalizing evidence of recent shifting sands in dune fields first seen in Mariner 9 pictures of Mars from the early 1970s.

American soul - influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s Cameo performed live on stage for the first time in Nigeria with the veteran artist King Sunny Ade ending the show in grand style.

The abatement was created in the early 1970s to spur construction during an economic downturn, and was revised in the 1980s to include provisions for below - market housing.

Last week, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told The Post that the unfolding corruption scandal was the worst he had seen since the rampant, top - to - bottom bribery exposed by the Knapp Commission in the early 1970s.

Aside from the BRT, the plan also includes $ 231.7 million to replace the Staten Island Railway's 64 cars, which date back to the early 1970s, as part of $ 386 million in improvements for the line.

The experience of Edward Heath's government of the early 1970s shows that without Thatcher, the Falklands War and the influence of the US, the IEA's line would have had less impact, less quickly.

Ms. Huerta's attacks are particularly interesting given the UFW's harsh rhetoric and stances toward the undocumented during its period of peak activity in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Even before Obafemi Awolowo's democratization of the Nigerian education space, by his revolutionary free primary education programme in the old Western Region; and Yakubu Gowon's liberalization of university access in the early 1970s, privileged and determined families had always sponsored theirs to study abroad.

«This is a lesson we learned in the early 1970s, which makes what went on Friday night look like a picnic,» Cox continued.

After attending Dartmouth College in the early 1970s, Howie worked in construction in New England and helped organize a worker cooperative that specialized in energy efficiency and solar and wind installations.

Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Erie County's economy remained strong.

Back in the early 1970s, a single - digit aged David Cameron probably had high hopes for his birthday presents.

Mr. Barron was a member of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and early 1970s, and represented his neighborhood of East New York in the Council between 2002 and 2013.

He returned in 2003 to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which he founded in the early 1970s, and remained there until 2010.

The 1991 council elections saw the Conservatives lose control of Guildford Borough Council for the first time since it was created in the early 1970s.

Then in the early 1970s at first it was thought Labour was on course for a landslide, then that Edward Heath would win comfortably, when the results came in, to the surprise of everyone going off the polls both main party votes had collapsed with Labour having enough seats to form a majority.

Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller pushed for the creation of the collection in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the desire «to collect contemporary art that reflects the period.»

When the term «no - platforming» was first used on university campuses in the early 1970s, it was almost exclusively in this context.

To Dr. Blyden's memory, from grateful Lagos, is the Edward Blyden Memorial Primary School, Lafiaji, Lagos — which, as kids on Lagos Island in the early 1970s, we used to mock as «Edo Foro», somewhat punning Edward for Edo (Yoruba for liver).

I worked on the Daily Mirror early 1970s and it wasn't bad.

Fact is, Cuomo's plan is warmed over political rhetoric that we have been hearing since the early 1970s.

3) In the late 1960s and early 1970s, most U.S. states loosened restrictions on abortion.

It was the early 1970s and Lee was chairman of the Tompkins County Republican Committee.

The PQ originally adopted the idea of the referendum in the early 1970s to separate the question of independence from the election of a PQ government.

Given this lack of interest, and assuming elected officials reflect their constituents, is it any wonder that their predecessors in the late 1960s and early 1970s were able to abandon the old city hall for more than 25 years with virtual impunity?

During his three years at Yale Law School in the early 1970s, Clinton worked on campaigns and honed his taste for politics.

Bratton's impending departure comes after he repeatedly helped push crime to its lowest levels in recent history — but amid an unfolding police corruption scandal that he's called the worst since the Knapp Commission revelations of the early 1970s.

In the early 1970s, when the Adirondack Park Agency was created, people weren't used to zoning and land controls, said Neil Surprenant, director of library services at Paul Smith's College and the institution's resident historian.

Margaret Thatcher, of course, went along with all this in the early 1970s.

It will, however, be the first time since the early 1970s that the Assembly chamber will be Weprin-less, since David Weprin replaced his brother, Mark, (the sibilings switched seats, with the later taking the former's NYC Council slot after he gave it up to run a failed bid for NYC comptroller in 2009).

Animal testing peaked in the early 1970s, and has been in decline since, due to both increased public pressure to reduce the numbers of animals tested and the development of available alternatives.

Who deals quickest with the early 1970s» blackout in No 10, as Heath - ites fumble?

Critics will say, with some reason, that the electorate has heard it all before — in the Alternative Economic Strategy (AES), which the Labour left devised to restore growth after the worldwide slump of the early 1970s.

Under rules that date to the opening of Empire State Plaza in the early 1970s, some agencies hand out garage parking based on overall length of state service, while others do it based solely on seniority within the agency.

Tax the Rich: If New York were to return to the more progressive personal income tax it had in the early 1970s, working and middle class New Yorkers would get a tax cut and the state would still raise at least $ 8 billion more in revenues.

Mr Heath made the quote in the early 1970s - when the green movement first came to political prominence:

CM Reyna opposed the no - bid deal and promoted Los Sures, a rival development organization which, like Ridgewood - Bushwick, originated in the early 1970s as a Latino tenants» rights advocacy group.

The official poverty rate, after falling by half in the 1960s, is now higher than it was in the early 1970s.

Back in the early 1970s, a plan to build a new airport on Maplin Sands by Foulness Island had the support of the Heath government.

However, I was surprised to find a reported quote from the early 1970s, when Margaret Thatcher was said to have remarked that she could not envisage there being a female Prime Minister.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raising PAC.

Correction: those figures are for welfare state performance from the early 1970s to the late 1990s from Moller et all (2003), given in Horton (2010), «Whose Middle is it anyway» public policy review.

Religious affiliation has decreased by 11 % since the early 1970s, and those with no religious identification have become the second largest category of religious identity.

After a series of filibusters in the 1960s over civil rights legislation, the Senate put a «two - track system» into place in the early 1970s under the leadership of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Majority Whip Robert Byrd.

«In the early 1970s, Sadat sought refuge in total US allegiance, freezing ties with the Soviet Union and Egypt's fellow non-aligned states, before negotiating a peace treaty with Israel.

The first is in terms of the standard ecological argument first proposed by the «limits to growth» thesis of the early 1970s.

In the early 1970s he joined Rothschild's Central Policy Review Staff at No 10 in the Heath government where he learnt to admire Heath and make contacts and friends with a generation of the ablest young civil servants who would rise to power and influence from which he benefitted.