Word: schroeders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoke or drink," explains Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "You can't oversocialize them because that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials fret (anonymously, of course) that curbing Navy pilots' sexual feistiness will remove the edge they need for combat. Democrat Patricia Schroeder, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, responds, "It's possible to be brave and still repress your roaring testosterone...
Successful male spouses, on the other hand, often get the benefit of the doubt, though there are exceptions to the rule. James Schroeder, whose wife Pat, a Colorado Congresswoman, once ran for President, says his legal career has not suffered and he has never been accused of a conflict of interest. But investment banker Richard Blum, husband of former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, says his firm was hampered because he turned down some clients to avoid the appearance of impropriety. "Could I have done better if my wife was home baking cookies?" asks Blum. "I think so." Another Californian...
...themselves feminists. There is something in the label that a lot of women, especially young ones, reject even as they acknowledge how much the movement increased the opportunities available to them. Younger women "think of feminists as women who burn bras and don't shave their legs," says Pat Schroeder, dean of Capitol Hill's 29 Congresswomen. "They think of us as the Amazons of the '60s. The facts have no relation to it, but it's become conventional wisdom...
...Guys like Jacoby and Bostic are four years older than I am but they can do everything I can do ." says Jim Lachey, the All-Pro right tackle who arrived in Washington from the Raiders in 1988 in a trade for quarterback Jay Schroeder. "If they can do the things they do, I certainly...
...checkbooks balanced," said attorney Steve Adams of Naperville, Ill. "For God's sake, who's running the store?" Freshman Republican James Nussle was back in Iowa eating at a local Pizza Hut with his family when a nearby diner asked if he planned to pay by check. Democrat Pat Schroeder, who insists that she has not bounced any checks, says the furor "captures the brick-through-the-window political mood. It shows you how angry people are with the incumbents." She was talking to her father on the telephone at the end of the week, and even he asked...