Word: fitting
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Gilligan, who is 46, argues that these stages don't fairly represent the ethic of care and responsibility that she has found in her interviews with girls and women. "Women just don't fit the schemes." Gilligan says, adding, "rather than finding problems in female development. I find problems in the schemes...
Where does religion fit in all this? He couldn't say exactly where, but he knew it was around. Businessmen regularly start the day with Bible-study breakfasts. Dallas contains the largest Southern Baptist congregation in the country, he told me, and some of the largest Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. And 59.2% of Dallas County voted for Reagan...
...question, though, is how the U.S.F.L. games will fit into the fall television schedule. NBC and CBS now broadcast three N.F.L. games between them each Sunday, and ABC airs another match-up on Monday night. In addition, the law bars the networks from carrying pro games on Friday nights or Saturdays during the high school and college football seasons. Even so, U.S.F.L. Commissioner Chet Simmons thinks that ABC or one of the other networks may be willing to show a fourth Sunday-afternoon contest. Moreover, Simmons says that ESPN, the cable-TV sports network that has agreed...
...Sears has won a reputation for taking back goods without an argument. "I bought a sweater at May's, had it wrapped at Bullett's, got my change at Mandon's, left by way of Desmond's, and when I found it didn't fit, the only place I could return it was Sears, Roebuck," quipped Radio Host Phil Baker of a jostling Christmas-shopping session in the 1940s...
...pants and pastel sweatshirts. There are T shirts and flight jackets made of parachute silk by the gifted British designer Katharine Hamnett. The elaborate, intricately detailed pants concocted by Marithe and Francois Girbaud, whose various lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric and an abundance of detailing. The simple functionality of jeans has, for the moment, been displaced by daunting arrays of tabs, Velcro closings, double pockets and looping drawstrings, so that the wearer, having mastered the intricacies of donning such a garment, emerges not as an urban cowboy...