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...true that virtuous women are seldom accosted-by virtuous men. It's the other kind who give a girl a hard time...
Work is still a profoundly respectable thing in America. Most Americans suffer a sense of loss, of diminution, even of worthlessness, if they are thrown out on the street. But the blow seldom carries the life-and-death implications it once had, the sense of personal ruin. Besides, the wild and notorious behavior of the economy takes a certain amount of personal shame out of joblessness; if Ford closes down a plant in New Jersey and throws 3,700 workers into the unemployment lines, the guilt falls less on individuals than on Japanese imports or American car design...
...appearing to protect the aged, this administration has appropriated a potential weapon from the American left. While the aged have seldom voted as a cohesive interest group, sympathy for the elderly has been a potent political force before. In 1965, such sympathy lead to crucial support for the Medicare program and, in years since, for expansion of that and related programs. But today, as liberals ready themselves for fights over the allocation of Federal resources, they probably won't be able to find the same feeling in the nation. Congress has seen the "mandate" of November 1980, and doesn...
...Senate committee reviewing new federal guidelines aimed at curbing such behavior. Said she: "Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women, except in the rarest of cases. Men hardly ever ask sexual favors of women from whom the certain answer is no. Virtuous women are seldom accosted...
...without paying them a lot of money. And at the end of two years, if some department wasn't just begging for them, I'd say, 'Look, we both made a mistake, and you'd better be on your way now.' But that seldom happened...