Word: marsha
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...database effort was started in late 1993 under the direction of Marsha Scott, a deputy presidential assistant. She was as guarded as the architect of a Pentagon "black project," working in a locked room of an Old Executive Office Building suite with a private entrance. In a confidential 1994 memo to Hillary Clinton, she argued against competitive bids for the system because they would throw it "open to public scrutiny and inquiry." The database was considered so sensitive that as few as three people were originally expected to have full access...
...Barbie CD-ROMs. With homework, soccer practice and Girl Scout meetings already on their calendars, many girls don't lack for activities. And when they do try their hand at video games, their tastes can run to Mortal Kombat as well as to Oregon Trail. That hardly shocks Marsha Kinder, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. "Those who are urgently trying to reach females end up reinforcing sexist stereotypes, such as 'Girls like cooperative games, not action,'" Kinder says...
...domestic participation and her father for more assistance in child care, she could eliminate some of the stress and chaos that plague her life. Lori's story is predicated on notions of feminine servitude and amounts to self-inflicted bondage. It is doubtful that politicians can solve her dilemma. MARSHA I. FEIGIN New York City...
...sobered me up about how precious life can be," Marsha A. Elbourne '96 says...
...President also tackled tasteless television, getting the networks to agree to a ratings system, despite Ted Turner's protestation that all would soon be Brady Bunch mush. But better Marsha fretting over going steady than the glut of sex scenes now as common in sitcoms as car chases are in movies. One minute my daughter and I are loading the dishwasher watching Mad About You and then--bang!--on the screen two people are actively engaged in baby making. Even anything-goes libertines I've asked cringe at the idea of watching soft-core sex with their children...