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Word: fitzpatricks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brownsville, the air is filled with the cries of babies and the smell of urine. Overcrowding and lack of sanitation in the area have contributed to an outbreak of hepatitis. Refugee advocates are infuriated by the Federal Government's inability to clear the bottleneck. Charges Roman Catholic Bishop John Fitzpatrick of the Brownsville diocese: "The INS is saying, 'Sorry, you can't leave to work, but we can't feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Immigration Mess | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...their native land. While the U.S. today is ill-equipped to take them all in, the dream lives on. For that reaca p16.227son, the immigration wave is not likely to stop or even slow. "People aren't going to write their relatives and say, 'Don't come,' " argues Bishop Fitzpatrick. Nor, despite the burden, is the U.S. likely to turn its back on its history by hanging out a sign that reads NO VACANCY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Immigration Mess | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...private contributions for the purpose of setting up new management-training programs for women entrepreneurs in several U.S. cities. The leading operation of this type: the American Woman's Economic Development Corp. (AWED). A nonprofit Manhattan center, AWED offers courses in marketing, finance and other business basics. Says Beatrice Fitzpatrick, founder and president of AWED: "We're teaching women the rules of the game." Since 1977, 1,267 entrepreneurs have graduated from AWED's 18- month program. Only seven of the AWED-guided start-ups (0.6%) have declared bankruptcy. Bootstrap programs for would-be entrepreneurs have also sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Women Entrepreneurs: She Calls All the Shots | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...corporations, it is the chairman who comes up with some of the most outlandish schemes, which subordinates must either make happen or give the boss a good reason why not. "We all live in mortal terror that Michael will come up with ten new ideas a day," says Robert Fitzpatrick, president of Euro Disneyland. Eisner once proposed building a skyscraper hotel in the shape of Mickey. But much of the time Eisner is only trying to provoke his subordinates into even better notions. "My primary interest is ideas," says Eisner. "The rest is kind of housekeeping to me. I understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Believe In Magic? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...Boston College. Sister Margaret Nulty of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious says, "More needs to be done, but this is a step in the right direction." But the liberal Women's Ordination Conference expressed frustration. "There was an attempt, but there's no movement," complains Spokeswoman Ruth Fitzpatrick. The Vatican offered no reaction. Oddly enough, few officials there even knew the paper was forthcoming, and none got an advance look at it. The American bishops' strategy, observed an official warily, seems to be to "get items onto the table by quoting them as the views of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Listening to The Voices of Women | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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