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...Wellesley College to celebrate motherhood and wifely virtues, she sparked a national debate among the young about what it means to be a successful woman. That debate was further fueled by the announcement by TV newswoman Connie Chung that she would abandon the fast track at CBS in a last-ditch drive for motherhood at age 44. Meanwhile, male role models are also in flux. Wall Street wonder boy Peter Lynch hung up his $13 billion mutual fund to do good deeds and have more time with his family. What generation in history has enjoyed such liberty to write...
Towards the end of the regatta, Bowers attacked the sixth-place Yale boat in a last-ditch effort to finish ahead of it. With no other chance at winning, the A-division boat succeeded in outsailing the Yale boat. However, this tactic cost Harvard in the long run, as Bowers' boat fell to third place overall due to its 15th-place finish...
...federal government made a last-ditch attempt to save the deal. Mulroney's chief constitutional negotiator, Senator Lowell Murray, announced that the government would ask the Supreme Court to extend the June 23 deadline, thus giving Manitoba time to complete its ratification. The maneuver had the opposite result. The premier of the other dissenting province, Newfoundland's Clyde Wells, complaining bitterly of the "fabricated precipice" of the June 23 deadline, then called off his own legislature's vote. Murray announced an hour later that the accord had expired...
...House, a bipartisan task force that tried to resolve the impasse came up empty after months of negotiations. Speaker Tom Foley and Republican leader Bob Michel last week made a last-ditch effort to achieve a compromise. Predictably, it failed. Now a bipartisan bill making such cosmetic changes as providing discounted rates for television commercials will probably pass. It will do almost nothing to curb the abuses...
...last-ditch effort to budge Shamir, Washington embarked on a high- profile game, threatening Jerusalem with both diplomatic and financial pressure. When President Bush condemned the settling of Jews in Israeli- annexed East Jerusalem -- a long-standing if rarely stated U.S. policy -- Shamir pounced. "Voices in Washington have outraged every Jew," he said. "We have no obligation to blindly follow every move the U.S. makes." The Bush Administration resented Shamir's efforts to shift the blame for his downfall. "This business that the President is precipitating this is nonsense," said a senior official in Washington...