Word: clark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans like cartoons of transformation, fantasies of sudden empowerment. Popeye eats spinach. Clark Kent enters the phone booth. The 97-lb. weakling sends away for the Charles Atlas course. Shazam! The creature that a moment ago looked mortal and ordinary and vulnerable becomes a master of the universe. He can fly. Conquer evil. Get revenge. He is born again, this time as a kind...
...wrestling team fell a fluke pin short of claiming the Ivy title, settling for a second-place finish. The matmen, who posted a 13-6 mark, sent three wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, Co-Captains Barry Bausano and Sean Wallace and freshman Jeff Clark...
...think people do not believe his handling of the situation demonstrated the kind of sensitivity to their neighborhoods they would have expected," said black Democratic City Councilman John Street. "I think he's going to hurt first and hardest in his own backyard." City Councilwoman-at-Large Agusta Alexander Clark, a Goode ally, is worried. "The brother was Mr. Teflon," she said. "He's been scratched now. The question is, Has he been scratched all the way down to the base metal?" Chuck Stone, veteran black columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, thinks he has: "The short-term rallying round...
...charges that women tend to be funneled into less prestigious consular duties (issuing passports and visas and handling problems faced by Americans abroad) while men are given more powerful political, economic or administrative posts. The department counters that the situation has been improving. Among its witnesses will be Joan Clark, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. Not expected: former Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who charged in a speech last December that stiff resistance to women still exists in the diplomatic corps...
...only Republican at the event, Clark Abt, a local Cambridge politician, who said he was unsure if he would actually run, was also the only speaker to oppose a bilateral, comprehensive, verifiable nuclear freeze...