Word: handmaiden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nurses are no longer content to be the doctor's handmaiden...
...counter Laban's growing appeal, the government has been forced to wage an unexpectedly urgent campaign of its own. In a televised speech last week, Marcos not only charged the opposition with "sowing discord, hate, confusion and resentment," but called it the "strong and willing handmaiden" of a Communist effort to "create disorder." The President has courted votes with more than just words. In the past few weeks, he has fattened government pensions by about 12%, boosted the base salaries of teachers (who will serve as vote counters) by 20%, and promised slum dwellers that they will soon...
Irwin Blye will never be mistaken for Philip Marlowe: he is handmaiden to the nation's lawyers, a shrewd middleman in America's judicial process. His assignments, almost always from attorneys, involve collecting evidence that is presentable and persuasive in court. The highest praise for the shamus comes from a lawyer feared in settlement circles as a "matrimonial bomber": "Irwin Blye puts things together. He knows the law." He also knows civil liberties and how to abuse them. To him information is power. His weapons are things like UCC-11 forms (for $3 you get everything on anyone...
...determined to drive out the foreign investor. LDC rhetoric, for example, has made the multinational a pariah, branding it as the handmaiden of neocolonialist exploitation. Many corporation executives believe that laws could be enacted making the multinational responsive to local government without necessarily creating an environment hostile to foreign capital...
...Educational reform, many of us now ruefully understand," he continued, "must be the handmaiden of general social and cultural reform, and often the latter should precede the former...