Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Utility officials argue that they can serve their large customers much more cheaply than smaller users. But Margaret Person, head of the Citizens' Action Program in Chicago, says that the preferential rates for large customers "encourage industry to waste energy." She added: "In effect, we are subsidizing U.S. Steel and other companies. They are getting a bargain...
...like a dream, that the next name in the lists after Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath is Margaret Thatcher." With those uncharacteristically emotional words, the coolly competent M.P. for Finchley accepted her triumph as the first woman ever to head a political party in Britain. Winning seven votes more than the mandatory majority of 139, Mrs. Thatcher, who had toppled former Prime Minister Edward Heath from his ten-year reign as Conservative Party chief the week before, soundly defeated a formidable array of four male challengers. Her leading opponent, Party Chairman William Whitelaw, drew only...
Life as Slesinger depicts it, is not much easier for a woman who makes a strong, in dependent decision. Margaret Flinders is a young intellectual socialist. When she becomes pregnant, she and her husband discuss how a child would destroy all their plans. But the final decision to have an abortion is hers alone, but afterwards she says...
...after he'd been arrested in a 1967 Pentagon demonstration. Dan has a daughter who studies sociology in college, and another who does yoga every night before she goes to bed. Three other sons were kicked out of school for wearing their hair too long--Dan and his wife Margaret went to the ACLU and got it all fixed up. Margaret is getting a college degree. Walk into their house and The New York Times is on the table, near books by Eldridge Cleaver and Philip Roth, near Joan Baez records. The Sizemores loved John Kennedy and hated Johnson, hate...
...posing her successful challenge to former Prime Minister Edward Heath last week, Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 49, became the first woman ever to make a serious bid for leadership of a British political party. Only a few months ago, she would hardly have rated in any list of contenders. Mrs. Thatcher herself allowed that she did not think that the Conservative Party would be ready for a woman chief in her lifetime. Whether or not she manages to secure a second-ballot victory this week, the controversial M.P.-whom the London Sun once dubbed "the most unpopular woman in England...