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...likely to work in clerical and service jobs. Blau and Kahn say women do make different choices when they decide on college majors and jobs - even highly educated women more often choose "female" occupations that pay less - but the authors also note that discrimination persists. As one example, they cite a 2000 study which found that when symphony orchestras switched to blind auditions - those in which the musicians play behind a screen - women had a significantly better chance of being hired...
...beseeched the rookie Fingleton to shelter him when the pair were batting together. "These blighters are after me," Bradman is alleged to have said. "They intend to bowl at my head. Will you take [Gubby] Allen for me?" Bradman always denied saying any such thing, but Fingleton would cite other instances that, to him, showed Bradman could go weak-kneed in the face of express pace...
Palin, Sarah •being on the ground in Alaska when Putin flies over it is cited as foreign policy experience by •meets and is photographed with two world leaders and Henry Kissinger •possibility of another Great Depression warned about by •is unable to cite single example of McCain's efforts to reform banking industry, finally tells Katie Couric "I'll try to find ya some and I'll bring...
...integration of Ole Miss at age 29. (Meredith himself reportedly told a small group of student journalists that he was not permitted to speak at his own 2006 statue dedication; a University spokesman denies this, saying Meredith declined to speak of his own accord.) These students cite self-segregated fraternity houses, dorms, parties and tailgates as evidence that the campus is not as hungry for change as some students might suggest...
...sometimes they cite personal experience. As a new freshman last September, Jeremiah Taylor accompanied his white roommate to a fraternity party where he was the only African American in attendance. He says a partygoer, noticing him, commented, "Oh my God, I can't believe there's a nigger here." When Taylor turned to go, one student threw a beer can at him and some others pushed him down the stairs. In the ensuing weeks, he says many students suggested that by going to "their party" - meaning one for whites only - he had been looking for trouble...