Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edith Guerrier--by Molly Matson, editorof An Independent Woman: The Autobiography ofEdith Guerrier. Union Club, 8 Park St, Boston.Thursday...
...Paris last week, Prime Minister Edith Cresson named unemployment, now nearing 10%, as "the government's public enemy No. 1." The mood of France is so downbeat that Mitterrand coined a new word to describe it: sinistrose, an amalgam of the words for calamity and moroseness...
...Edith Magee is typical in that the most common targets of harassment in blue-collar jobs tend to be women who are breaking into fields once dominated by men. In white-collar professions, most victims are "women in lowly positions," says Susan Rubenstein, an attorney in San Francisco who specializes in sexual-harassment cases. "A secretary will get harassed before a lawyer, a paralegal will get harassed before an associate." Particularly in male bastions, women find that feminism becomes, ironically, a weapon in the attack...
...people wrestled last week with the ambiguous definitions of sexual harassment, many were left with a conviction that, as with pornography, they know it when they see it. The ugly realities of many American workplaces give the legal language its vividness. There is, for instance, the case of Edith Magee, who worked a shovel and drove a dump truck for the St. Paul, Minn., sewage department. "There was always this implied threat that if they didn't like you, they would use their authority to get you in trouble," she says of her supervisors. Her employer settled her case...
Prime Minister Edith Cresson, who has proved herself quick with a cutting quip about foreigners, is emphasizing a tough immigration policy that is certain to reduce the number of North Africans in the country. All those judged illegal immigrants by "French justice," she says, "will be sent back home." Mitterrand agrees. "Enforcement of the law must be strict," he said last month. "Clandestine immigrants must go home...