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Word: role (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been more than 20 years since Betty Friedan wrote her watershed work on women and their role in American society. The Feminine Mystique analyzed a series of ailments and injustices against women which raised the nation's public and political consciousness and helped initiate the Woman's Movement...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: A Silver Lining to 'Webster' | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

Pierce told the subcommittee last month he had no direct role in funding decisions in the Section 8 or any other program. Since then, however, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Pierce intervened on behalf of several associates, including a former law partner. Subcommittee members have told Pierce, who has moved back to Manhattan to resume his law and business dealings, that they want to question him again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierce May Be Implicated in Scandal | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

...attitude of the Bush Administration has been pretty disappointing," says Ye Yang, a graduate student in comparative literature. "It might be a game on his part. Let the Congress and the Senate play the militant role...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Pushing for Change Across the Ocean | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

Dalton's first outing as Bond, in the 1987 The Living Daylights, was an obvious attempt to get away from the light-hearted jokester that Roger Moore had made of the role. Dalton, a well-known stage actor (he used to be with the Royal Shakespeare company) was supposed to be a newer, younger Sean Connery, who may not have played the role the way Ian Fleming envisioned it, but who is nonetheless the paradigmatic Bond...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: The New 007: Bringing Bond Back to Basics | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

...article criticized President Bush, who visited Beijing in February "in the role of an old friend of China," for inviting dissident Fang Lizhi to a banquet attended by senior Chinese leaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communist Party Publicizes Crackdown | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

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