Word: fored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal barriers to women achieving full economic and social equality with men are gradually falling. In turn, sexist attitudes on the part of the media, employers, and other social groups are taking on even more importance as barriers to women's success. Playboy, of course has been at the fore of the exploitative media. To call Playboy seamy or stupid and leave it at that misses the point: Playboy uses as its biggest drawing card a highly stylized format displaying women as sex objects, and has over its lifetime done more to cement men's sexist perception of women than...
True, the 1947 U.S.-Philippine agreement stipulated that the bases were to be rent free, but it also included an under standing of military assistance and protection for the Philippines, which was later gutted by the Nixon Doctrine (Guam, 1969). Is it any wonder, there fore, that the attitude of the Philippine government now is, "If you want to main tain bases here, pay rent for them...
...seemed to show a rare blend of strength and humility, a fine gift for words, a reassuring balance between kindness and worldly practicality. But how had he come to be chosen? And why? Had some kind of secret combine among the Princes of the Church brought Luciani to the fore? Or a compromise that, despite formal assertions of happiness, really left nobody happy...
...third ballot, at 4:30-after a traditional Roman siesta-Luciani burst to the fore, falling just short of a majority. "At that point," Luciani explained later with a smile, "it began to get dangerous for me." Cardinals Willebrands of The Netherlands and Ribeiro of Portugal, sitting on either side of him, leaned toward him. Whispered one: "Courage. If the Lord gives a burden, he also gives the strength to carry it." Whispered the other: "The whole world prays for the new Pope...
...breed. Unlike domesticated or laboratory animals, man has not had harmful and even lethal genes bred out of him. These genes remain in humans, many as recessives, suppressed by dominant normal genes. If humans could be cloned by Markert's method, these recessive genes could come to the fore and express themselves, causing deformities and genetic illnesses, even death...