Word: claremont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angela Hom, 21, grew up in a sweatshop owned by her parents, where women's blouses were made. "When I was little, we would work until 1 in the morning, then sleep on the cutting table," she says. This year she wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on garment workers. "This is my parents' dream," she says. "This is America. America gives rights to women that would be unattainable if we were back in our homeland...
...Washington Post Executive Editor BEN BRADLEE at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.: "In its lay -- or nongovernmental -- form, press bashing is most apt to show up in the form of libel suits. The Philadelphia Inquirer has no less than 21 libel suits filed against it today. We have had a big one going with the former president of Mobil Oil. Four judges have considered it; two have ruled for him and two for us, but unfortunately for us, the last two were his. It is on appeal now, and our legal bills alone have already topped...
Harvard's toughest competition will probably come from Claremont-McKenna College of Los Angeles. Calif and the University of Kentucky in I exington, according to Swaine...
...schools cannot keep up with demand. Since the American Nanny Plan opened in Claremont, Calif., in 1983, some 2,000 families have written to ask about hiring one of its 36 graduates. Desperate couples have even been known to underwrite a trainee's tuition to ensure her services after graduation. The rush, says Judith Bunge, founder of North American Nannies Inc., in Columbus, "is because of the high number of working mothers with children under...
Civil Rights Leader Coretta Scott King at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.: "I believe the dramatic increases in voter registration we have recently seen provide hope that we can begin to turn this nation around. When we make politics a crusade, politicians will begin to understand that they must serve all of the people and not just a select few. When we make politics a crusade, we can put a stop to this insane, suicidal nuclear arms race which is destroying our economy and terrifying our children. When we make politics a crusade, we can make the Equal Rights Amendment...