Word: connaught
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month later than usual in identifying the three prevalent strains, according to Beth Waters, spokesperson for Connaught, a Swiftwater-based pharmaceutical firm...
Some observers believe the sexual revolution has directly contributed to women's restlessness and discontent. The liberated woman's adoption of freer sexual attitudes can get in the way of emotional intimacy, suggests Connaught Marshner, executive editor of the Family Protection Report newsletter in Washington. "Unless the woman basically coaches the man in how to achieve intimacy, he won't," says Marshner. "He has to be motivated and he has to be taught. If a man knows he can get you to go to bed with him, he's not going to bother to be interested in your personality...
...Valley, chalet, snug under a brightly colored Navajo blanket and clad in a Nordic apres-ski sweater and wool twill slacks. Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Sip tea at London's Connaught Hotel, draped to perfection in a chalk-stripe suit...
...spread through New Delhi, there were screams, weeping and tearing of hair, but mostly the kind of stoic acceptance that Indians tend to show in times of sorrow and pain. "She's gone," they told one another, rarely using her name, because in India, "she" meant Indira. All around Connaught Place, the capital's commercial center, there was the sound of steel shutters slamming down as shop after shop closed for twelve days of mourning. By late afternoon, New Delhi had become a ghostly city of empty streets. Flags were lowered to half-staff. On television, prayers were offered...
...Connaught Marshner, a Weyrich colleague, claimed that the New Right's archfoes, the feminists, did little better in defeating enemies on their own hit list. But the National Organization for Women, which had targeted certain members of the Florida and Illinois legislatures after they had defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, said it had won enough victories to get the measure passed in those states if it were to come up again...