Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief among the women's problems is getting their fair share of the mother's milk of politics?money. Women are less likely than men to make large donations. Sharon Sharp, Republican nominee for Illinois secretary of state, was approached after a speech by a woman in an expensive suit and flowing fur coat who excitedly thrust a check at her. It was for $5. Jane Eskind, who has the uphill task of opposing Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker in Tennessee, has had to rely on her own money ($100,000 so far). "Men are more comfortable contributing large amounts...
...women tuned in to the unions, business political-action committees or the old-boy network, which help men candidates raise sizable chunks of money. It becomes a catch-22 situation: women find it hard to attract heavy contributions because they seem less likely to win than male opponents, and women are less likely to win because they cannot raise big money. Audrey Sheppard of the Washington consulting firm of Rothstein/Buckley reports: "Where women were able to raise the money and run adequate campaigns, they were very competitive...
Women also have less access to the bastions of ward-level power ?the corner bar, veterans' club or Rotary-type organizations. Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado says that almost all the forums she attended in her last race were in front of clubs that barred women as members. Says she: "You felt like you were contaminating the food or that you ought to pop out of a cake. It's not like you're one of the boys; you feel like a hunk of meat." Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs succeeded her late husband in Congress, but to keep...
...constitutional confrontation that arose when the defense demanded the notes of New York Times Reporter Myron Farber, who had first dubbed Jascalevich Dr. X in articles that led to the multiple-murder indictment. Last week Jascalevich was back at center stage when the jury, after deliberating for less than three hours, acquitted him of all charges. His supporters in the courtroom burst into applause. Said the doctor: "Justice has been done...
Historically, the choice has tended to fluctuate between the idealistic and the more or less pragmatic - saints or statesmen. It has also reflected the wish of Nobel, who specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened...