mid-Seventies

(This was the mid-Seventies, when high schoolers looking for stirrings of transcendance felt obligated to read Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.)

Fifteen books that given the way my life has turned out I probably shouldn't have read 2009

Let's go back, mid-Seventies or something, mid-Sixties.

From toxic sewer to natural haven, the river Wear's return from the dead 2011

Starting sometime in the mid-Seventies in Spain, Inditex, the Euro 11 billion (revenue) company that owns Zara and some other labels, built a hugely successful business model of taking the latest catwalk designs and converting them into affordable high street fashion in a matter of three weeks.

Fast Fashion: Zara in India 2010

I was one of those women who grew up and came of sexual age in the early to mid-Seventies Young women often aren't interested in our stories and I can't quite blame them, but they shouldn't think that their sexual adventures or "liberation" is anything new.

Lisa Solod Warren: Who Gets to Call Herself a Feminist Matters More Than We Might Think Lisa Solod Warren 2010

I first learned this lesson as a kid in the mid-Seventies when I convinced my late great father to take me to see a group billed as The Drifters who were playing a nearby hotel during a family vacation in Miami Beach.

David Wild: Less Super, More Tramp: A Conversation With Roger Hodgson, Formerly of Supertramp 2010

Starting sometime in the mid-Seventies in Spain, Inditex, the Euro 11 billion (revenue) company that owns Zara and some other labels, built a hugely successful business model of taking the latest catwalk designs and converting them into affordable high street fashion in a matter of three weeks.

Fast Fashion: Zara In India 2010

Another viable possibility would be the appointment of an independent "blue-ribbon commission," perhaps modeled on the Church Committee of the mid-Seventies, to assess any illegal or improper activities and make recommendations for reform in government operations against terrorism.

Coleen Rowley: VIPS Memorandum re Torture: Don't Leave the Loaded Pistol Lying on the Kitchen Table 2009

The end of this "Long Sixties" should be drawn in the mid-Seventies, I believe.

Tom Hayden: Greece and the Global Sixties 2009

In the mid-Seventies I sat with teachers who worked for the Chicago Public Schools, as we studied about counseling of youth in changing times.

"Hizzhonor:" Chicago Politics Under Richard M. Daley 2009

Moon's troubles in America had begun in the mid-Seventies, when Minnesota Democratic Congressman Donald Fraser launched the so-called "Koreagate" investigation -- in part a probe into Moon's relationship to the Korean CIA and the buying of political influence on Capitol Hill.

Rory O'Connor: Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon 2009