Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman appointee: Patricia Roberts Harris, a Washington attorney, who could be named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Two other women were interviewed by Carter for possible Cabinet posts: Joan Manley. Time Inc. vice president and publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, who might be under consideration for Commerce; and Duke University Economist Juanita Kreps, a possibility...
Economist and vice president of Duke University, where she earned Ph.D Age 55 . . . Under consideration for Labor Secretary . . . If chosen, expected to press for such programs as job training for unemployed youth and equal pay and child-care centers for working women . . . Specialist in labor-force demographics and working women . . . Vice president, National Council on the Aging . . . First woman director of New York Stock Exchange, J.C. Penney Co. . . . Also on three other corporate boards...
Soft-spoken feminist, shuns the term women's liberation . . . Says she's "sort of old-fashioned," believer in women's obligations within the family . . . With Fellow Economics Professor Clifton Kreps Jr., has raised three children . . . Fancier of classical music and Duke Ellington jazz . . . Episcopalian . . . Politically liberal, but economically fairly moderate . . . Pessimistic about U.S. ability to reduce unemployment to previous levels...
...Houston Rockets pro basketball team for $2,000 per couple per day. For the more active twosome, Sakowitz will serve up a weekend of treasure hunting for Spanish gold at the bottom of Scotland's Tobermory Bay, complete with licensed diver, plus bed and board at the Duke of Argyll's Inveraray Castle (cost: $50,000 a pair in Yankee green). Or, for $37,500 each, they can spend two weeks aboard a schooner retracing Darwin's voyage of the Beagle. Sakowitz, while reporting more "interest" than sales, was hoping for a last-minute spurt in exotica...
...minutes they take a vote, and everybody who gets less than three votes leaves." Some thought they detected a special rapport between Carter and Schultze. Most of those present had frequently been mentioned for top economic jobs in the Carter Administration, although there were a few surprises, notably Duke University Vice President Juanita M. Kreps and Laurence Lynn, professor of public policy at Harvard...