Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oblivious to the reprimands from the other side of Houston, the Women's Conference kept up its brisk pace. Only on the last day did the women begin to show understandable signs of fatigue and short temper. The final resolution proposed creating a Cabinet-level department to deal with women's issues. Some delegates objected that the position would "ghettoize" feminist concerns in one department and take the pressure off other areas of Government. The resolution was the first and the last to be disapproved. With that, the meeting adjourned in boisterous disarray...
These women will get high-level help from the wives and daughters of powerful politicians. The feminist crusade has lately recruited many of them, and they were at Houston in large numbers. Cynthia Baker, Daughter of Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, was a delegate at large; Cecilia Apodaca, wife of the Governor, was a delegate from New Mexico; the West Vir ginia delegation included Sharon Rockefeller, the Governor's wife. At Houston, Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, declared herself "a newly proclaimed feminist?I used to think it was a bad notion...
...Pingree flung his blade forward at chest level Mandelbaum squatted down near to the ground and delicately poked the engineer in the stomach...
Optimal fluoride levels are about one ppm, which is the current Cambridge level. Some such naturally fluoridated areas in the U.S. as the Dakotas have water fluoride concentrations...
...major concern as councilor, therefore, will be to encourage the participation of citizens in public affairs at the municipal level. "Cambridge is uniquely able to serve as a demonstration of this, because we already have, for our size, a large number of citizens doing this," Wylie said...