Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrust a check at her. It was for $5. Jane Eskind, who has the uphill task of opposing Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker in Tennessee, has had to rely on her own money ($100,000 so far). "Men are more comfortable contributing large amounts," she says. "They also have access...
Women also have less access to the bastions of ward-level power ?the corner bar, veterans' club or Rotary-type organizations. Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado says that almost all the forums she attended in her last race were in front of clubs that barred women as members. Says she: "You felt like you were contaminating the food or that you ought to pop out of a cake. It's not like you're one of the boys; you feel like a hunk of meat." Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs succeeded her late husband in Congress, but to keep...
Clearly, Peking had prevailed over Moscow in the race for access to Japan's enormous economic and technological resources. Moreover, by establishing strong links with the Japanese, the Chinese had moved forward in their determination to shift the balance of power and isolate the Soviet Union in the Far East. Peking had even succeeded in inserting a clause into the treaty condemning "hegemony"?the favorite Greek pejorative of the Chinese, used to describe Soviet expansionism...
...with our needs." So Benedict, as a director of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association, organized 1,600 farmers to put up $20 million in cash, borrow another $47 million and buy out the company. Now they run the mills, sell sugar directly to industrial users and have access to a company computer that provides each farmer-investor with a detailed analysis of his beet fields for the past three years...
...investments have made him a genuine corporate executive, Benedict looks on them merely as extensions of his farm. Says he: "I just wanted to sell grain and beets exactly when it best suited my own operation. The market is so crazy these days that if you can't get access to the price you want the moment it is offered, you might as well give up. Eliminate uncertainties, that's the golden rule. You eliminate uncertainties in production through technology and very careful management. You eliminate uncertainties in price by controlling the marketing as much as you can. That leaves...