Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to do what the U.C. and the Salient did, which was to assume that because the Date Rape Task Force's recommendation called for the initiator of sex to acquire consent from his or her partner before intercourse, unfair burdens were placed on men and not women. Reeder wrote in her article that while "ideally, no man would have sex with a woman unless he is certain that she wants to do it," the Task Force's recommendation that men ask before engaging in sex is a "call for male sensitivity" that is "a moral command, not a legal...
...fitting analogy for this debate. Doctors, she said, are not allowed to operate on a person simply because the patient does not say anything. An operation requires a yes. Not similarly requiring a yes for sex somehow implies that an initiator has less responsibility with his or her partner's body...
...Magazine of college-aged women found that one in four had been raped and that 84 percent of those raped had known their attacker. The single largest cause of injury to women in the U.S. in domestic violence; 52 percent of all women are physically abused by their partner at least once and 20 percent of emergency room visits by women are for injuries caused by battering...
That defense seems to miss two points about at least the appearance of impropriety: a Governor should not be a business partner of a man subject to regulation by the state administration; and clients with state business to transact might choose a law firm they thought had influence with the administration -- and who would have more influence than the Governor's wife...
...miles east. Their parking lots were full of McConkey's neighbors and friends, lured there through the winter's cold by the powerful Wal-Mart merchandising mystique and retail prices often below his wholesale cost. He thought then, and thinks today, that he and his partner and brother Richard did everything right to withstand the normal merchandising revolution of the past 40 years brought by good roads, city malls and the early discounters like K Mart...