Word: carding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employers, and other social groups are taking on even more importance as barriers to women's success. Playboy, of course has been at the fore of the exploitative media. To call Playboy seamy or stupid and leave it at that misses the point: Playboy uses as its biggest drawing card a highly stylized format displaying women as sex objects, and has over its lifetime done more to cement men's sexist perception of women than any other publication...
...Women who are reaching for the executive suite are going to have to accept ... the financial responsibilities of their new status," Tish writes. Still she gets rather squeamish, for a feminist, about the way a woman should pay the check after a business lunch: If she uses a credit card or signs for the tab, she should do so "quietly, no one around them need be aware of her actions." Still more surreptitious is the course she advises for a woman when she senses that the man is uncomfortable about her paying: "She should excuse herself at dessert time...
With one month remaining in the schedule, Dallas last week was tied with Atlanta for a wild-card play-off berth. Lowly Houston, the mighty Cowboys' poor cousin in the American Conference, sported an identical record. Throughout the 28-team league, with the season nearly three-fourths over, the standings are closer than at any time since the 1970 merger with the American Football League. Before this week's action, only Los Angeles and Pittsburgh had managed to open modest leads in their divisions-two games. The Pack was back in contention, rekindling memories of the Vince Lombardi...
...subject to some of the most elaborate safety requirements specified by government DNA research guidelines. The lab, known as a P-3 facility because it requires a high level of physical containment, now houses two Harvard research teams. Behind the reinforced glass doors, entered with a special magnetic identification card, the scientists are experimenting with the genetic code. At the same time, debate continues over another kind of code--safety regulations Harvard scientists must follow as they conduct their research [see sidebar...
...support programs at universities ranging from Georgetown to Stanford, were trying to gain undue influence in the U.S. Nonetheless, some of the resistance to the U.S.C. center seemed more emotional than anything else. Jewish Businessman Allen Ziegler, a U.S.C. alumnus,, announced that he had sent back his lifetime membership card in the Alumni Association in protest. Said Ziegler: "I wonder where they're going to put the mosque...