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" " In demonstrating the antidepressant effects of lithium in a controlled study in the early 1970s , Dr. Goodwin not only made life more bearable for countless men and women , he helped change how the world looks at mental illness . When his department administrator in Pediatrics offered him a coveted S-1 parking space from the department ’ s allotment in the late 1970s , he turned down the offer because he preferred his bike commute . For example , in the late 1970s , General Motors approached Coleman Young , then mayor of Detroit , with a request to build a Cadillac plant in a residential neighborhood known as Poletown . In the early 1970s , at a time when public concern about privacy , automation and mushrooming information systems was at its height , Congress considered several legislative proposals that would have imposed a uniform nationwide information management scheme for State and local handling of criminal history record information . Those offsets , Thomas realized in the late 1970s , are a blurry image of sharp zigzags in the old edge of the continent - - of the jagged rift along which Laurentia , as ancient North America is called , tore away from some other continent . In the first genetic modification experiments , which took place in the mid 1970s , synthetic human genes were combined with genes from a bacterium . A number of other cheap processor chips were developed in the mid 1970s , and this led to the arrival of home and school computers in about 1977 . In the early 1970s , after having owned his own appliance sales and repair business in Dadeville for several years , he went to work for OrrTronics in Opelika . And in the late 1970s , it sued auto companies for conspiring to suppress development of pollution-control devices . Aided by deregulation of the meat-rendering industry in the late 1970s , the strategy transformed Britain 's cattle from BSE-free herbivores into BSE-infected carnivores . Appellants contend , finally , that , even if not formally overruled , Harris and the Civil Rights Cases have been repudiated by subsequent authorities and are no longer good law , a contention in support of which appellants rely upon dicta from concurring and dissenting opinions written during the 1960s , a speculative footnote from an opinion in the early 1970s , a passing observation from the Court 's decision in City of Boerne , and a law review article from 1964 . In the mid 1970s , he ( along with Stan Bevington of Coach House and two others ) formed SoftQuad , which was intended to produce software to do just that . But when Turner began her studies of Chinese history in the early 1970s , China was still closed to foreign visitors . In the mid 1970s , forest departments in South-east Asia became aware of the vulnerability of rattan supply and began investigations aimed at safeguarding the long term supply of canes for the industry .