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This report avoids that trap by elucidating more solid arguments for female representatives. Most women would show a better grasp of feminist issues simply because they have experienced sexual discrimination. They will be more responsive to a female constituency. They will accustom male legislators, administrators, judges and voters to dealing with women in positions of responsibility. Finally, they will provide a useful model for other women, who will feel stronger in facing the government with their problems in seeking decision-making positions, and in organizing their communities...
...Ireland is generally dated from the sectarian riots of August 1969, when 300 British troops were airlifted in to restore order. Since then, by British army estimate, there have been 2,200 bomb explosions, an average of more than two a day, and 541 deaths. Ulstermen have had to accustom themselves to the surrealistic world of urban guerrilla warfare; violence has become almost as common as shepherd's pie, and assassination squads move through Belfast with ease. TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers cabled these impressions of a city that has in many ways become accustomed to horror. His report...
...BECOMES necessary to be quite literal when reality threatens the figurative perception of your ideals. Your eyes that are focused on the shadows in the dark must accustom themselves to the light of day. Squinting is natural before you become wide-eyed. Things clear up considerably and your vision becomes prescience. This is historical awakening, a process that has many forms. It is an awakening into time, identity, meaning and destiny. It is a process that leads one to define the new days...
...NCAA's Faller will go down a weight class to 158. After a week of hard workouts, he weighed in at 160 at Penn State, and with two weeks remaining before the nationals, he should be able to accustom himself to the lighter weight...
...half of all recent army trainees have learned their basics in G.S.T. courses. Just as important to Ulbricht's hopes of keeping the lid on in East Germany was another lesson taught at G.S.T.: how to take orders. "G.S.T. training," said Defense Minister General Heinz Hoffmann, "must also accustom the young continually to firm discipline and order, and teach them to follow orders of the trainers with respect and without discussion." That, too, had an all too familiar ring...