Word: lot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very encouraging. The team looks strong," Harvard Coach Maura Costin-Scalise said. "There were a lot of people here who couldn't believe we were as competitive...
...easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests: all these come fairly naturally. Instilling entrepreneurial spirit and managerial efficiency on any level higher than selling lemonade at curbside is a lot harder. Eastern Europe is littered with the wreckage of previous attempts at economic reform...
...York City is a tough town for newspaper competition, but an upstart called Street News has a lot going for it. The monthly newspaper features writers such as pop stars Patti LaBelle and Gloria Estefan, and ads from Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Most important, the non-profit Street News has a highly motivated, 50-member sales staff: homeless people who work strictly on commission. To apply for the job, "you don't even need clean clothes," says SN editor Hutchinson Persons, a rock musician and founder of a coalition to help the homeless...
...that 90% of male executives 40 and under are fathers but only 35% of their female counterparts have children? "Our generation was the human sacrifice," says Elizabeth Mehren, 42, a feature writer for the Los Angeles Times. "We believed the rhetoric. We could control our biological destiny. For a lot of us the clock ran out, and we discovered we couldn't control infertility...
...might be tempting to conclude from the wide-ranging complaints from so many quarters that the women's movement has failed, that rather than improve the lot of women, it has helped make their lives more complex and difficult. But for all the discontent and frustration expressed by women today, a vast majority revels in the breakthroughs made during the past quarter-century: the explosion of roles for women, their far greater participation in the country's political and intellectual life, the many options that have come to replace their confinement to homemaking. Very few women would like to turn...