Word: norton
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...lawyers. They represent about 10% of the profession, and the proportion is growing: one out of three students now graduating from law school is a woman. Female attorneys are no longer considered "a bizarre thing," as Shirley Hufstedler, Secretary of Education under Jimmy Carter, recalls they Eleanor Holmes Norton were when she was one of two women graduating from Stanford University's law school in 1949 ("It was a bumper crop that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just don't hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans...
...Hearns lands his powerful rights, another Leonard flaw will come to the surface. When Sugar Ray fought Duran that first time, it became apparent that not only was Leonard losing, but he was intimidated, even scared. Now Leonard is no Kenny Norton--he won't buckle at the first hard body shot--but he does seem to lose heart when things don't go his way. When he sees that he's having trouble reaching Hearns, and when Thomas starts slamming left hooks to the liver, Sugar Ray will wilt...
GRANT by William S. McFeely Norton; 592 pages...
...strong third-place performance last week in the Radcliffe Regatta, the women's sailing team, led by skippers Lauren Norton and Ronnie Sebok, will travel to Naragansett Bay near Providence this weekend to compete in the Northeast championships...
...Brown, Norton and Sebok, whose boats will be crewed by Lisa Glen and Deirdre Wilde, need at least a third-place finish to qualify for the North American championships that will be held in June...