Word: findings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knowing and for emphasizing the wrong issues. The ERA and lesbian rights, while noble causes, seemed to have garnered more attention than the pressing need for child care and more flexible work schedules. The bitterest complaints come from the growing ranks of women who have reached 40 and find themselves childless, having put their careers first. Is it fair that 90% of male executives 40 and under are fathers but only 35% of their female counterparts have children? "Our generation was the human sacrifice," says Elizabeth Mehren, 42, a feature writer for the Los Angeles Times. "We believed the rhetoric...
...children, Nathaniel, 3, and Madeleine, 11 months). "I wondered whether the movement did us a disservice by not preparing us for how difficult it would be," she says. "I'm part of a generation of women who grew up with the opportunities created by the feminist movement, but who find it difficult to cope in a society whose institutions and values have not yet adjusted to women's new roles...
...world they find is not entirely disagreeable: shoelaces tie themselves; the criminal-justice system works efficiently because lawyers have been eliminated; the Chicago Cubs have finally won the World Series. Young McFly's salvation, though it requires a certain strenuousness, is quite simply accomplished. On the other hand, the personal future that Marty and Jennifer discover is not what they dreamed it would be. Something has gone quite nastily wrong...
...movement. A favorite target is Gunter Mittag, the recently sacked Politburo member in charge of the economy. Described by the newly outspoken East German press as arrogant and autocratic, Mittag is being held responsible for wrecking the economy and cooking the figures to such an extent that reformers cannot find accurate economic data with which to work. Prime Minister Hans Modrow, the moderate former Dresden party chief who himself was investigated in June by Mittag and his minions, welcomed parliament's decision to probe abuses of power under Honecker. Said he: "An example must...
After pro-choice voters helped defeat Republican candidates last month in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City, George Bush started sending out the word that the G.O.P. is big enough to accommodate supporters of abortion rights. But pro-choice job applicants will not find the same warm welcome at the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency with the heaviest responsibility for health care and family-policy issues. HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan has become a virtual figurehead, hemmed in by Administration pro- lifers who have made opposition to abortion a litmus test in hiring and policy decisions...