Word: sheila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sheila Tobias, associate provost of Wesleyan University, is a feminist with an interesting theory about why women fail to get certain kinds of jobs. Says she: "I had been deeply concerned with occupational segregation, the tracking of women into 'soft' fields that were considered appropriate for them. When I listened to adult women discussing going back to work, they kept talking about 'working with people.' What they were all avoiding, I realized, was anything based on mathematics. It just went click." A number of studies by educators have substantiated what Tobias has named "math anxiety." Among...
Some staff members gratified long-suppressed desires during the week. Sheila Weidenfeld, the First Lady's press secretary, sat in the President's chair at the Cabinet table, closed her eyes and made a wish, just as she had in 1958 when her father, Ike's Cabinet secretary Maxwell Rabb, was leaving office. Said she: "I was nine years old, and I wished I could come back to the White House, and I did." Sheila and Husband Edward spent a night in the elegant Queen's Bedroom; next morning, a White House operator phoned...
Choreographyby SHEILA WARTSKI...
Shaking Chills. In fact, the investigators learned that the search itself may entail some risks. While examining tissue from a victim last month, Dr. Sheila Moriber Katz, a pathologist at Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, became seriously ill with symptoms that looked strikingly like those of Legionnaires' Disease: muscle pain, shaking chills and high fever. Katz's illness was clinically diagnosed as viral pneumonia, and she recovered in time to attend last week's meeting. But try as they might, doctors have been unable to identify the virus that felled...
...Sheila Schimmel, secretary of Lowell House, said yesterday that as many as possible of Lowell's 47 singles will be eliminated next year to ease the House's overcrowding...