Word: lynn
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...proliferation of books, television programs, academic courses and corporate training seminars has also served to raise awareness. "Everyone talks the talk these days," says Lynn Povich, editor in chief of Working Woman. "It's politically correct." When the Pentagon rebuked Navy investigators for failing to take seriously the charges of women molested during the Tailhook convention, it reinforced the notion that men who still "don't get it" proceed at their peril. "The Navy cover-up didn't work," says Professor Mary Coombs of the University of Miami School of Law. "The old idea that women who claim harassment...
Harvard then watched what may have been its best effort of the season fall short as Friar forward Lynn Campbell sliced the Gordion knot, scoring with 3:44 left in overtime...
...that consumer confidence fell 2.6 points in September, its third drop in a row. The Commerce Department revealed that its index of leading indicators fell 0.2% in August. And the latest unemployment figures showed a tiny 0.1% improvement, to 7.5%. President Bush proclaimed it "very good news." Labor Secretary Lynn Martin was more precise: "It is good that the news is not awful...
...surge in nontraditional families increases the risk of disruption. "There are more incidents of incest reported in stepfamilies than in biological families," observes Lynn Reynolds of the Institute Against Social Violence, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Adopted children may be particularly vulnerable; no matter how well they are treated by their adoptive families, they frequently struggle with feelings of abandonment by their biological parents...
...Basically, there are a lot of political junkies who wouldn't get in on the action any other way," said Lynn Johnson, public affairs director of the Houston Host Committee...