Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television talk show recently, Betty Friedan mentioned in passing that women are opening new businesses at a faster rate than men are. TIME Reporter-Researcher Leslie Whitaker, who happened to be watching, immediately picked up on the remark. She called Friedan, who told her that she had got her statistics from the Small Business Administration. "When the SBA verified that women were in fact the most dynamic portion of the small- business community," says Whitaker, "I knew I was on to a good story." The result: this week's special report on women entrepreneurs, who these days are running everything...
Historically, the movie actors who have got the most out of acting gay have been those who have played camp roles. No one confused Robert Preston with his outrageous queen in Victor/Victoria, Tom Courtenay with his prissy, mincing backstage assistant in The Dresser, or William Hurt with his flamboyant spinner of dreams in Kiss of the Spider Woman. All three were thought to be brave, tour de force performances...
...There is the outside chance that he could lose," Haupt said. "I've got nothing to lose, while he has everything to lose...
...through the skillful negotiating tactics of Mondale's point man on the issue, Robert Beckel, the Jackson factor was effectively neutralized. The result was that Mondale got little in the way of fervent support from Jackson and his followers, but more importantly in the eyes of the Mondale campaign, he got little in the way of outright opposition. Talk of forming a third party ended up being just that...
...effort to spread his idea of community, Smith got 200 other whites to come to Mamelodi last March and spend four days living with black families. That too was regarded by traditionalists as a threat. There was talk that white youths might invade the township and attack the visitors. Smith regarded the possibility calmly. "Some people say they may beat us up. Maybe, for the sake of justice, whites must experience what it means to be beaten up." The sense of sin to be expiated is never far from Smith's mind. "When I walk around the township," he says...