Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen a lot of people writing my name on desks," he says. "It's clearly not my handwriting. Not only in Lamont but in Emerson and Sever and things like that...
...public rarely gets the chance to hear Bill Murray reciting lines like "When thou must home to shades of underground," or Christopher Reeve reading from the works of Emerson and Keats...
...congressional spouse should have a leg up socially and professionally; instead it is like having one foot shot off. "No one takes you seriously if they bother with you at all," says Jo Ann Emerson, wife of Missouri Congressman Bill Emerson and deputy communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee. In Washington ignoring most of the women at a cocktail party is considered an efficient use of networking time. Let John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor walk into a room, and all the suits head toward the Virginia Senator. Taylor describes her three lonely years as a congressional wife...
Although many congressional wives work (there are no husbands in the Senate, a handful in the House), finding a job can be difficult. Says Emerson: "Unless an employer is looking for special access through you, you just look like trouble -- someone who will want all congressional recesses off, will have to travel back to the district to campaign on weekends, and might not be here two years later if your husband loses." Heather Foley, wife of Majority Leader Tom Foley, solved the problem by taking a job -- gratis -- in her husband's office...
After last Sunday's often unruly session, council leaders are taking extra precautions to insure that speakers' rights are protected at tomorrow night's meeting. And the council has announced that its session will be moved from its regular location in Sever Hall to a larger room in Emerson, in anticipation of what may prove to be the largest crowd and the most heated debate in council history...