Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-dozen TIME reporters who spoke to the businesswomen behind the stats heard tales both harrowing and inspiring. "They have frequently beaten the odds," says Whitaker, "working with less capital, less training and fewer contacts than their male peers. They've created their own opportunities." Few saw their success as a triumph for their sex. "Most women entrepreneurs like to think of themselves as business people first and females second," says Reporter Blake Hallanan, who conducted interviews in the West and Southwest. Washington Correspondent Gisela Bolte agrees: "The women did not strike me as profeminist or antifeminist. Their only cause...
...delegate's note later read from the dais at the conerence praised Gromyko and won warm applause, but it also noted that he "has fallen behind the times...
JACKSON could choose to be a true thorn in Dukakis' side. He could issue ultimatums behind which his constituency could rally. He could lay out a sensible case for his being placed on the ticket--one that goes beyond his supporters' current contention, that since he came in second he has earned the spot, as if history backed up such an argument. He could defiantly challenge the party to open up, to acknowledge itself as the party of the left, just as the Republicans admitted they were the party of the right by nominating Reagan...
...decades ago. They revived the themes that have been the hallmark of his career: of looking at people as individuals rather than as masses, of insisting that political power must come from the people up, not the government down. They battled for the right to let Reagan be Reagan behind a great Moscow pulpit. It was mind over protocol...
...idea behind the landmark measure is to get people off relief by getting them into jobs. The bill requires that states provide job training, education and work for able-bodied welfare recipients, except those with children under the age of three. (States have the option of lowering that limit to age one.) To ensure the transition from handouts to breadwinning, states would have to provide child care for nine months and Medicaid for up to a year after the parent gets...