Word: presenters
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Under the heading "New Demographic Realities", Daphne Spain, a professor at the University of Virginia and a former researcher at the Census Bureau, will present a paper using census data to pinpoint the current situations of women. Suzanne Keller will use that information as a starting point for her paper, which will be a "more projectionary and daring" exploration ofwhere women will be at the beginning of the nextcentury, Lee said...
Assistant Professor of Law Kathleen M. Sullivanwill present a paper during the legal section ofthe conference...
...While Blackmun, 79, had some favorable remarks at a judicial conference in St. Louis, he outdid himself with sharp words about individual Justices. What especially seems to upset Blackmun, however, is the tendency of President Reagan's appointees to vote as a conservative bloc. "All the appointees of the present Administration are voting one way," he complained. "When I started, we tried to just be good judges...
...chiefs were re-examining whether such events ought to be subjected to the full-blown assault that TV has traditionally given them. Even before the Democratic Convention was over, ABC News President Roone Arledge suggested that Democrats and Republicans, perhaps in concert with the networks, ought to change the present setup and "come up with something more appealing." Observed Arledge: "The political parties are turning off the American public...
Rossiaud's book doesn't present a cheery view of the role of women in the Middle Ages. Prostitutes were mere laborers for the common good, functioning without status, clout or social position. And he shows that they flourished only because taking them away would have made matters worse, as violence and unwed mothers plagued the countryside...