Example sentences of "the 1960s [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheery tombola social nights at local Labour Clubs were replaced by showings of Peter Watkins 's brilliant but heart-stopping antinuclear film , The War Game , which the BBC had commissioned in the 1960s but still wimpishly refused to screen . |
| 2 | Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years . |
| 3 | They make nonsense of the aspirations of developing countries , who not only lack the funds available to some American schools in the 1960s but who lack the meagre finances spared to education in Britain in her declining 19705 . |
| 4 | SABRE is an airline reservation system , developed by American Airlines in the 1960s but now generally available . |
| 5 | It all seems to offer a breathtaking array of choice yet in practice the schedules too often present the same glum menu of badly dubbed westerns , trivial game shows , long and justly forgotten Neapolitan comedies of the 1960s or windy discussion programmes . |
| 6 | If UK companies had recognised in the 1960s or early 1970s the need to enter the high-volume chip business , Juleff thinks that the whole of the British electronics industry would be in a better state . |
| 7 | Magazines such as Majesty and Royal Monthly would have had little hope of survival in the 1960s or 1970s . |
| 8 | Of course , in the 1960s or 1970s they were less likely to be called projects : they were ‘ schemes ’ , or ‘ plans ’ , all very redolent of the ‘ planning ’ of the public sector , indeed of all economic life in those Wilsonian days . |
| 9 | The Easter rising of 1916 as an act of national liberation , unquestioned in the dominant catholic — nationalist culture from 1922 until well into the 1960s and 1970s , still holds a cherished place in the hearts of the majority of the people . |
| 10 | The economic growth of the 1960s and early 1970s came to grief because of the western economic slump of the last decade and the massive increase in the Southern population . |
| 11 | The national keg brands were the result of a wave of takeovers and mergers in the 1960s and early 1970s that created ‘ the Big Six ’ combines — Bass , Allied , Watney/Grand Met , Whitbread , Courage and Scottish & Newcastle . |
| 12 | The response of the 1960s and 70s to this failure to capture the essence of the traditional pub was the ruthlessly-applied corporate image and the proliferation of ‘ fun ’ theme-pubs . |
| 13 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 14 | Throughout the 1960s and 1970s , line after line closed . |
| 15 | ‘ Hewden Stuart increased its profits steadily through the Stop-Go policies of the 1960s and 1970s but experienced a hiccough in 1979-80 when there was a fundamental reconstruction of British industry , ’ he explained . |
| 16 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 17 | A frequently quoted example of the companies at Stage 2 is the British motorcycle industry of the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 18 | What Bartlett and Ghoshal refer to as the global company is alleged to be the result of Japanese practice developed in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 19 | In Britain the idea of openly partisan broadcasting was pioneered by the Scottish Nationalists ' clandestine and illegal Radio Free Scotland in the 1960s and more recently by Southern Sound , who used a discarded former commercial radio band to set up their entirely open and legal Conference Radio FM to cover the 1990 Conservative Party Conference from an unashamedly pro-Conservative viewpoint . |
| 20 | Take-home pay rose persistently during the inflation of the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 21 | Equally , it went through many of the same traumas as Britain in the 1960s and 1970s while the Thatcher crusade for the market-led economy found an echo not only in Reagan 's America , but in France , Australia , Spain , and even social-democratic Sweden . |
| 22 | Norman Tebbit 's Disraeli lecture in 1985 spelt out his distaste for the ‘ valueless values of the permissive society ’ , of the 1960s and 1970s — represented by legalized abortion and homosexuality , fewer constraints on what is portrayed in the media and theatre , and growing disrespect for authority . |
| 23 | On the other side sceptics point out that the Conservative share of the vote in the 1983 and 1987 elections is below that in the 1960s and they point to the several opinion surveys which show that popular support for collective values remains high . |
| 24 | The errors we made in the 1960s and 1970s can , and are , being corrected . |
| 25 | Malawi has not been debilitated by localism , and experienced considerable economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s with a strong agricultural performance and an unusually effective civil service . |
| 26 | In the 1960s and 1970s most governments set up economic planning organizations which reflected these objectives . |
| 27 | In spite of the prevalence of economic planning in the 1960s and 1970s , it is doubtful whether a development policy has existed in most of Africa in the last twenty-five years . |
| 28 | In the 1960s and 1970s these problems were consistently underrated by governments . |
| 29 | Those countries which had the best record of increasing productivity in the 1960s and 1970s , such as Kenya and Cameroun , are no longer maintaining their momentum . |
| 30 | In spite of the nationalizations of the 1960s and 1970s the stock of capital of foreign investors continues to generate about one-fifth of Africa 's gross national product . |