Word: role
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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...