Word: ms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only throws up a smoke-screen for the department and Ms. Marshall, then he's going to do nothing," says one officer, speaking on condition of anonymity...
...Ms. Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Presley of Memphis, announced her marriage to Mr Michael Jackson of Neverland
...friend forwarded the proposal to Polly Price, Associate Dean for Human Resources. Ms. Price rejected it on the grounds that: "that particular form of benefit payment, under federal laws applicable to retirement plans, would constitute a retirement plan all unto itself. It could jeopardize our whole retirement program for faculty and staff...
...Ms. Price's response, in which she characterized a negotiated termination settlement for an employee forced to take early retirement as a "retirement plan" was, in my opinion, disingenuous. Prior to my suggesting the 10-year payout plan, I had discussed with Phil Lima of the Benefits Administration the procedure followed in arriving at termination settlements. I specifically asked if multi-year payouts were permissible. His reply was that "FAS could strike any deal it wanted" and he went on to point out that negotiated settlements do not involve the use of restricted pension funds...
...talk-show circuit if the New York Times had not assigned the book to be reviewed by an academic feminist of the very sort Sommers decries. The June 12 review, by University of Pennsylvania professor Nina Auerbach, airily blew Sommers off as another "muddled" example of conservative backlash: "In Ms. Sommers' world, there are no powerful men, only women shrieking irrationally in a vacuum," wrote Auerbach. "But her treatment of social issues is so thin that it is she who is in a vacuum...