Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Constitution's framers would be turning in their graves at the majority's application of simple cost-benefit analysis on a question involving one of that document's most sacred amendments. Their decision "ignores the fundamental constitutional importance of what is at stake here," said Justice Brennan, echoing fellow dissenters Stevens and Marshall...
...this male preserve by being both feminine and feminist. Her hair is frosted blond, she wears stockings and makeup, and she loves to shop. When she needs to, she can flirt. But she is also tough and resilient, a shrewd back-room operator. She is, says fellow New York Congressman Joseph Addabbo, the paunchy, balding Chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, "just one of the guys...
...Jefferson had done, Stanton and her fellow rebels set forth their grievances against the tyrannies of the authorities. A respectable married woman of that day could not, in general, own property, testify in court against her husband, sign a contract or keep her earnings. The tyrant responsible for her plight, according to the Declaration of Seneca Falls, was Man, who "has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...
Larry Simns, President of the Maryland Waterman's Association, says that declining catches are forcing him and his fellow fishermen out of business. As Tilghman Islander William Roulette points out, "We all must work part-time ashore." The Chesapeake fleet of skipjacks, sail-driven oyster dredges, has dropped from more than 100 boats to 30; the number of working watermen has shrunk from 7,500 in the '50s to about...
...memory of Rakel can make him feel a sense of loss, as he considers her promise destroyed by drink, abuse and self-hatred. Only Anna's threat to walk out on the play can rouse him to wrath, for she is betraying not just Strindberg or her fellow actors or the audience, but the holy Henrik. Like any other man, he is susceptible to the attentions of a strong, beautiful young woman; like any other director, he can both experience an emotion and observe it from a dispassionate distance. And so Henrik and Anna talk themselves into...