Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brownmiller offers exhaustive proof of the historical basis for sexism, but she offers no solutions. She concludes the book by saying that "there are no easy answers" to the many central questions which she has posed. For this reason, Femininity offers no real step forward in feminist though. Highly personal and packed with lively anecdotes--both autobiographical and historical --the book nevertheless fails to offer any fresh insights. Instead, a current of resentment runs throughout, as though Brownmiller wrote Femininity to purge the curtseys of her youth and high heels of her adulthood...
...unlikely illegal immigrants would even come forward to change their status, and if they were to do so they would be overwhelmed with a bureaucratic barrage of inquiries, demands for proof, and new definitions. For instance, only those who could prove they have "resided continuously" in this country for five years would be classified as permanent residents. This excludes individuals who spend more than 30 days outside the country--a likely situation for an undocumented worker with a family back home in Mexico. The bill's amnesty provision serves merely as a rotten carrot--one which probably...
...believe the halls of Government are as sacred as our temples of worship," Reagan declared. "I will be the first to remove anyone in the Administration that does not have the highest integrity. However, I'm not going to take any action that is based on accusation without proof...
Instead of depositing the mollusks, Rosenberg left a note in the book Monday demanding proof that the stuffed bear was alive. Tuesday he received four black and white snapshots of Rubenstein blindfolded on that day's New York Times...
...albeit small ones, on each of the issues of concern to the students of that day. The victories were hard-fought--most of the violence that so alarmed the press was in fact directed against student demonstrators by the police' Pusey had called in--but they were real, vivid proof that students can, when they choose, have an effect on even this school. In the 10 years that have passed since then, however, those victories have slowly eroded--partly from declining student interest, but also from a renewed tendency of the men who run Harvard to ignore those interests...