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Goldin, who this year became the first woman ever tenured by Harvard's Economics Department, didn't start out studying women's issues. In fact, she didn't even study economic history--the mainstay of her professional career--until she was well in to graduate school...
About 35 years ago, Dr. George Simkins challenged that prejudice when he ventured onto Gillespie Golf Course for a historic round of golf, a match that eventually opened the course to blacks. Today the public course is a mainstay for black golfers, since no blacks belong to the city's private country clubs. But no one battles that exclusion. "It's like jumping to the moon," Simkins explains. "You know you can't do it, so you never...
Amid the constant shortages and discomforts of Soviet life, one of its good things has always been a crusty loaf of nutty Russian bread. Comforting to stomach and soul, bread is a mainstay of the masses' daily existence. For that reason, Moscow for almost 30 years has held the price of the average loaf at a heavily subsidized 23 kopecks -- about 40 cents...
...past, when the entire infrastructure of confrontation -- from ideological intransigence to the arms race as the mainstay of security policy -- was still intact, fluctuations and even abrupt swings were probably inevitable in our relations...
While sportswear may be the mainstay of most licensing programs, other manufacturers have more specialized wares to hawk. "Pencils, key chains, caps, drinking glasses," says Struss. "You name it, they'll make...