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Clearly, this was an exceptional snag in a generally sound policy. Often there is no need to make nouns gender specific. If the sex of the person holding a position is truly irrelevant, then terms like "chairwoman" and "salesman" provide extraneous information. There is no good reason why "he" should be used instead of "she" in the general case. And understandably, people dislike the term "freshman," which excludes half of the first-year class...
...fertile soil for false allegations of sexual abuses," says Guyer. "There are therapists who interview children in ways that are leading, suggestive and coercive; they are the validators of sexual abuse charges." The charges in the Jackson case smell fishy to Lynne Gold-Bikin, a Philadelphia family lawyer and chairwoman- elect of the family-law section of the American Bar Association. "You're looking at a 13-year-old child in the middle of a bitter custody fight," she says. "These children are the least reliable witnesses of all, because they're being torn between pleasing two parents. They...
SENATOR ROBERT DOLE (Kansas, minority leader):speech to Manchester Chamber of Commerce and press conferences, April 14-15; reception for Senator Robert Smith, Nashua, May 2; reception at home of Manchester G.O.P. chairwoman Barbara Arnold...
...shoot but talk back. Clinton, pressed by reporters for a response to Perot, said, "Well, we know he doesn't like my state . . . but that doesn't have much to do with America." Three senior officials -- Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Laura Tyson -- appeared at a press briefing to answer in advance the attacks on NAFTA Perot was preparing to make in a TV speech Sunday night...
...stubborn insistence on cutting education $2.3 billion. Wilson also threatened to veto a compromise bill introduced in his own Republican ranks. Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's Democrats just as stubbornly drew the line and refused to cut school funding more than $605 million. Fumed the Assembly's education chairwoman Delaine Eastin, a Democrat: "We're not going to balance the budget on the backs of our children...