Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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How will O'Connor's appointment, assuming she is confirmed, affect the decisions of the high court? The security of lifetime tenure can liberate Justices to see themselves in a new perspective, unencumbered by the pressures of climbing toward the top. They are there. Justices have often confounded...
Nothing dramatizes the changes that have taken place in the past 108 years more than the nomination of Sandra O'Connor to the bench where Bradley once sat. Today some 50,000 women are going beyond their "paramount mission and destiny" by pursuing careers as lawyers. They represent about...
Yet women are still "the foot soldiers of the profession," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "You don't find many in the upper reaches of bench or bar." Recent studies have shown that women account for only 2% of the partners in...
Reported by Jonathan Beaty, Steven Holmes and Jeff Melvoin, with U.S. bureaus
Such encomiums are in keeping with the kind of raves that cocaine has enjoyed in the past. In 1885, Parke-Davis, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, promoted it as a wonder drug that would "supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent, and free the victims of...