Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report stressed that "gov jocks," who are usually male, were a problem for both women and men in the department. But a larger proportion of women noted that the "gov jocks" kept them from speaking in class. "Gov Jocks" should not be allowed to dominate, and everyone should be heard. Part of the problem can be addressed with greater teacher sensitivity, and the department should provide appropriate training. The other part belongs to students: "gov jocks" must take care to listen and not shout down other students' input. Women have to speak...
Peters wasn't sure she would ever make it to the finish line. Then she ran through her hometown of Wellesley, heard the cheers from her relatives and friends...
...unseemly became ordinary as women, riding a new wave of feminism, swept through the nation's law schools. In the U.S. today, more than 40% of law students and 20% of lawyers are women. As their numbers have swelled, so has their influence. "Our voices are definitely being heard," says Carrie Menkel-Meadow, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles...
...Frank Lorenzo, the embattled chairman of Texas Air, had just announced that an investor group headed by the boyish-looking former commissioner of major league baseball will buy strike-bound and bankrupt Eastern Air Lines for $464 million. Celebrating Ueberoth's move in a Miami union hall where they heard the news, boisterous Eastern machinists began singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game. The initial response of striking employees to their prospective new boss held promise that Ueberroth may be able to get Eastern's fleet back into service quickly. Ueberroth, though, shrugged off any notion that he will...
...cruiser that mistakenly shot down an Iranian passenger jet last July, killing all 290 passengers and crew members. Eight months later, his wife was driving to her job as a fourth- grade teacher at the elite La Jolla Country Day School. As she paused for a red light, Rogers heard a bang in her Toyota van; she leaped out, unharmed, just before the vehicle burst into flames. Investigators believe a terrorist pipe bomb was placed in the van in retaliation for the downing of the Iranian airliner...