Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...male and female experiences are jarring. The frequent occurence of male-dominated discussion sections, with two female students in a classroom of a dozen men, hardly builds self-esteem. With women holding only 7 percent of the tenured faculty positions and only one-fourth of the junior slots, finding role models isn't easy...
...issues, whether they acknowledge it or not. Certainly women in any organization face a different potential for discrimination than their male counterparts. Women in all activities are women first, and members second. For that reason there should be discussions of women's issues, top female speakers, more women role models and resources to help Harvard women cope as they juggle careers and families...
...being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since it did not have multiple warheads. The incident heightened tension between the Administration and Congress, and hastened the day when Congress would insist on playing a more direct role in the formulation of U.S. arms- control policy...
...unusual transatlantic production, there was a hefty bill for the transport and lodging of the creators and the Anglo-American cast. On Broadway, some 20% of each week's box-office income was set aside for royalties to the creative team, including Novelist King, who otherwise had no role in the show. Another debated expenditure was $500,000 plus for a print, poster and TV ad campaign in New York City before the show opened, much of it teasingly mysterious rather than hard sell...
Until he died four months ago at 62 of a heart attack, Werner Nachmann was the most powerful figure in West Germany's close-knit, 30,000-member Jewish community. As chairman of the Central Council of Jews for 22 years, he played a key role in German-Jewish reconciliation. At a funeral ceremony, Chancellor Helmut Kohl eulogized Nachmann as a "moral authority" who had "made his mark on the history of our republic...