Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political agenda, like worrying over the young, the aged, the sick and the environment. Surveys show that women are perceived to be better than men on these issues, as well as to have higher ethical standards and greater honesty. "Our stereotype," says Democratic Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, "is finally in." Pollster Mervin Field goes further, predicting that the 1990s will be the "decade of women in politics...
...when Record Editor-in-Chief Pat Miles declined to publish the article, Niewyck said he and several other students, who co-signed the flier's cover letter, were left with no choice but to distribute the column themselves...
...Jersey banker, Stempel worked summers as a garage mechanic and won a collection of drag-racing trophies. Later he graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, then earned an M.B.A. from Michigan State in 1970. He still reads car-buff magazines, and enjoys skiing and surf casting. Stempel and his wife Pat have three children, two grown and one in college. But Stempel is intensely private about his life outside the company, a feeling that carries over from the kidnapping of his son Timothy in 1975. (His son was rescued from a car trunk, and the kidnappers were caught...
...government and others decide such questions as the export of advanced technology helps to determine whether countries like Brazil will become nuclear missile powers. Usually the decisions are made on short-term foreign policy grounds -- the need to give Collor a pat on the back, the desire to be involved with Brazil's development. But the technology is long term, and the entire world must live with the consequences...
...cold war, we face a new war in the gulf. Like Americans going off to Korea just five years after V-J day, we feel uneasy, disappointed. The more disturbed among us feel betrayed. They need to conjure up some conspiracy, some alien force (Jews, imagines the fevered Pat Buchanan) dragging us again...