Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ignored the needs and opinions of the most powerful new force in the marketplace: the professional woman, who is just as ambitious and conservative as her male counterpart -- and competitor. "I have worked very hard to reach a point where I am taken seriously in the business community," says Jean Brooks, senior vice president of a Los Angeles advertising firm. "A short, short skirt is not going to help that." Asks Andrea Mitchell, White House correspondent for NBC News: "Can you imagine me sitting down to interview the First Lady in a skirt hiked up over my thighs?" Barbara Sigmund...
...most explosive issue of the campaign focuses on France's immigrant population, some 4 million people, many of them North Africans. Resentment of their claims on social and employment resources has been fanned, frequently with racial undertones, by Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front. Chirac and Barre, either of whom would need Le Pen's expected 11% of next week's vote to go their way in the second round, are handling the matter with caution, calling for immigration reforms based on the recent recommendations of a high-level commission. Mitterrand favors...
Hachette, under Chairman Jean-Luc Lagardere, entered the U.S. market quietly, launching two joint ventures with Rupert Murdoch. The first, a U.S. edition of France's Elle fashion magazine, which made its debut in 1985, was an almost instant success (current circ. 850,000). Premiere, a movie monthly, also got off to a strong start (circ...
Icastic imagery can be found in the models of the crystal ("the self-organizing system") and the flame ("order out of noise"), which Calvino steals from a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky on the philosophy of science. Under the emblem of the crystal, language is a privileged place where a geometric pattern of meaning may grow despite surrounding disorder. Calvino names Wallace Stevens as a poet of the crystal. Under the emblem of the flame, on the other hand, language unifies disorder by consuming it. William S. Burroughs might be a partisan of the flame...
When I said yes, the man in the jean jacket said he and his friend were students at the Kennedy School. "Our church is having a big rally Sunday. About 700 or 800 students are going to be there. We just wanted...