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Although women admittedly received a mere 12.5 percent of tenure offers, there is no evidence of discrimination against them. Thus an effort exclusively to recruit women and shaft other candidates is not justified...
Pretenses of demure fashion established by “Hollywood” were quickly abandoned as the subsequent “Blaxploitation” theme evoked the sex appeal of the strong black male and female icons prevalent in popular 60s movies of the genre, such as Shaft and Foxy Brown. Revealing pieces from Wilson’s Leather, Planet Aid and Oona’s swayed and shimmered on bodies pulsating to the rhythm of “Sex Machine” and “Bad Mamma Jamma...
With my elevator shaft safe house compromised, there was only one place left to seek refuge from the constant badgering: upstairs to the lobby, the one spot in the entire building where there was always work to be done...
...corner of Saddam's underground hiding place were a handful of q-tips. In another, a black plastic bag. An electric fan was installed in one wall next to a small ventilation shaft, which emerged above ground a few feet away from the entrance. It's hard to imagine the confines could provide its inhabitant with a feeling of security, much less power, or anything other than a sense of claustrophobia, especially when the Styrofoam block is lowered into the entrance way, then covered with a rubber mat, a cloth rug, and dirt-as it was when Special Operations Forces...
...supplies to board the Aurora, which was carrying a total of 1,900 passengers and more than 800 crew. The vessel was only days into a tour of the Mediterranean when the virus struck. Miner Threat RUSSIA Rescuers saved the final 11 miners trapped for six days in a shaft 800 m underground by drilling a 50 m "tunnel of hope" from an adjacent mine in record time. Twenty-five of the 71 men who were in the mine when it was flooded by an underground lake had earlier managed to make their own way to the surface. Thirty-three...