Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Born in Colorado, the professor graduated PhiBeta Kappa from the University of Colorado in1932. He received his master's degree in 1934 fromTufts University and his Harvard Ph.D...
...extend such leaves to fathers as well. A bill requiring this type of "parental leave" will be introduced next month. It would allow up to 18 weeks of unpaid leave with job security for both new mothers and new fathers. "I think this decision gives us terrific momentum," says Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, a sponsor. "If the Reagan Supreme Court understands this issue, let us hope that the Democratic House and Senate do as well...
...center of the controversy is Susan Miller, 43, a onetime Southern Baptist and civilian employee of the Colorado Springs, Colo., police. In 1982 she embraced Reform Judaism, adopting the Hebrew first name Shoshana. When Miller moved to Israel in 1985, the Interior Ministry questioned the validity of her conversion because it had been supervised by a Reform rabbi. Thus, said the government, Miller was not eligible for the automatic citizenship granted Jews under Israel's Law of Return...
Says Miller, who has returned to Colorado for a short time: "When I decided to join the Jewish people, I thought innocently that I was making a strictly personal commitment. But to my disappointment, I found myself at the center of an acute public controversy. I have undergone bitter experiences that are not easy to forget...
There lingers, too, an affection for the man and an awe of the office that, if properly marshaled, could get the country solidly behind him again. A White House staffer chuckled last week as he recalled the tart-tongued Pat Schroeder, Democrat from Colorado, knifing through the mob at the White House Christmas party so she could be photographed with the President. Indeed, several hundred color shots of legislators posing with the President landed on congressional desks last week, and many of the prints are already down in the frame shop. The newcomers were openly eager for their first invitation...