Word: ellen
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...This is not a new database,” said Department of Defense spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke. “We’ve been doing this for many years...
McCartney, who has held tenure at the GSE since 2000, succeeds Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, who surprised many GSE faculty last March when she abruptly announced that she would step down as dean of the education school at the end of the academic year...
...consumers so willing to become walking billboards? "Wearing these items is a way of broadcasting your preferences to the world," says Ellen Auster, a sociologist at Columbia University's business school. Many people want to assert something about their life-style, as in the case of young adults proclaiming their newfound privilege of drinking beer. Others want to reveal some hidden part of their personality. Says Auster: "The yuppie wears a Harley-Davidson shirt because it triggers a side of him that is most of the time suppressed...
...erotic fantasies on MTV, one thing about American teenagers has not changed: they are in many ways just as ignorant about the scientific facts of reproduction as they were in the days when Doris Day, not Madonna, was their idol. In a study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Demographer Ellen Kisker of Princeton University found that teenage girls are awash in misinformation. Among the commonest myths: that they could not become pregnant the first time they had sex, if they had it only occasionally or if they had it standing up. Adolescents are especially foggy on the subject of contraception...
...airlines battle it out, the only clear winners will be their customers. Ellen Farmer, a legal secretary in Elgin, Ill., plans to take a break from the cold weather later this month by boarding Midway Airlines' $99 flight from Chicago to Orlando. Says she: "I don't think Midway would have had such a low fare if People Express hadn't forced them...