Word: doormats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Joel Klein came up for approval as chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division last summer, even some Democratic Senators viewed him as a doormat for Big Business and tried to step on his appointment. All that changed last week when Klein audaciously hauled mighty Microsoft into court. Former critics now applaud him as a true trustbuster. The New York Times, which had called Klein's appointment "disheartening" in July, finds him to be "sensible" and "right" to take on Microsoft...
...Wildcats, traditionally a non-league doormat for the Crimson, may hold some surprises in store this season with the addition of several transfer students, including junior outside hitter Cari Sanders, junior middle hitter Bethany Cole and senior setter Maureen McCarthy...
Last season Penn broke out of its traditional Ivy League doormat mold to become one of the Ancient Eight's most dangerous squads...
...hadn't written a spectacular book, rescuing the art of autobiography from years of celebrity abuse. Graham produced her book the old-fashioned way: she wrote it herself. In describing the pain of being the ugly duckling among the beautiful people, and the struggle to transform herself from "doormat" to corporate mogul after her husband's suicide, Graham has mapped the heartache of being flawed and human and female. With the help of Gloria Steinem she came to see that the thousand small slights she endured were not singular to her but common to her gender. When...
...when your prefeminist, stand-by-your-man performance prompts millions (including me) to label you a doormat, it is hard to reclaim your anonymity. Like a state trooper who keeps hundreds from speeding by pulling over one scofflaw, McGann might have slowed down a few philanderers with a decisive show of force. But she resisted playing to the crowd or saving face, to the near universal scorn of the sisterhood. "I didn't know that feminists had decreed what the politically correct rules were for personal relationships," she says. "I did what was right...