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Word: explaination (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington when she served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1972-73? Macho editors, who would never put such a question to a man, still send women's page reporters to interview her, and well-meaning businessmen still give her head-patting lectures to explain balance sheets. Whitman smiles at the condescension and responds with her ultimate putdown: a stunning soliloquy on international economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Rise of the Role Model | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Paul J. Wang '79, representative to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) for Currier House, attempted to explain the need for dues. "River Houses make use of funding techniques that Quad Houses can't or haven't chosen to use. For example, Quad parties aren't usually to raise a lot of money," he said...

Author: By Amy R. Gutman, | Title: Quad Students Are Pressured To Pay Their 'Optional' Dues | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...will eventually produce a world in which women would have the same opportunities and responsibilities as men. Ehrenreich and English contend that both of these theories fail to provide a viable role for women. This failure resulted in a cult of professionalism; women became dependent on experts who could explain why they felt unfulfilled...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Getting Better All the Time | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

Although based on the outlines of a true story, "Midnight Express" is more akin to fantasy, albert a nightmarish one. How else can one explain the wholesale brutality of the Turkish characters, the unreal prison conditions, and the imaginary arbitrariness of the Turkish judicial system, not to mention Billy Hayes' unbelievably easy escape? Not one technique is spared to impress on the audience the repulsiveness of Turkey. Violent scenes are accompanied by Turkish folk music as if to show the necessary relationship between the two. Even the normally beautiful Istanbul skyline is transformed by the camera into somber and gloomy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...Richard Blandau, a respected fertility researcher at the University of Washington and the board's vice chairman, was more accusatory: "There is great concern that Dr. Steptoe has failed to publish and explain fully what he did. To many of us with great experience in the field, it still has not been proved that there was a test-tube baby. For all we know so far, the baby could have been conceived by natural means." According to an interview with Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, Blandau further charged that Steptoe had "violated med ical ethics by selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Bum Rap for Dr. Steptoe | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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