Word: ms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lest you think this column is just an ad for the WLC (that's what my T-shirt is for), I wanted to write about the issues of feminism and politics raised in one of the speeches we heard, the keynote address by Marie C. Wilson President of the Ms. Foundation and of the White House Project. (She also helped create "Take Our Daughters To Work...
...Ms. Foundation is itself traditionally liberal in its views (Gloria Steinem is one of the founding organizers), and I wonder how the members of that group would feel if their White House Project helped contribute to the election of a conservative woman president. Wilson bristled a little at my question and reiterated her stance that the goal was to flood the national stage with strong women candidates and then start considering the issue of politics. Real leadership, she repeated, was moving forward in the face of criticism of the sort I had just raised...
...private enterprise, beginning in 1954, where he played a role in the creation of an American cultural icon: the M&M chocolate candy. As coordinator of the new product for Hawley and Hoops, the candy's manufacturer, Vernon was dubbed "the man who put the crunch in M&Ms...
...Participants joined in an intensive series of workshops, panel discussions and other activities beginning last Wednesday. A keynote address was delivered Monday morning by Marie C. Wilson, founder of Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Wilson is president of the Ms. Foundation and president of the White House Project, an organization seeking to create the political conditions for women to launch successful presidential campaigns...
Although technically outvoted, the anti-Guinier faction should not be tyrannized by a mere majority. No, as Ms. Guinier once suggested, proportional representation is in order. If, for example, it is ascertained that 25% of the class objects to the present choice, 25% of the time alloted for the Class Day address should go to an alternate speaker who embodies their values. And if we at Dartboard may be so bold, we'd like to offer a suggestion: a fellow political jiltee, who also saw the objections to his views intensified by his unfortunately unsympathetic mien. Robert Bork, come...