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...sponsors of the Roe bill, who include such liberals as Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), as well as conservatives such as Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), share the distrust for academics...
...Shirley Williams, a prominent British Labor Party member delivered last year's talks...
Some GM dealers say that the interest-rate publicity is helping sales in a normally slow period. Dick Shirley, general manager of Don Mealey Chevrolet in Orlando, Fla., reports that the program boosted his sales by 67% during the first half of August over the same period in July. Other dealers are angry because they are partially paying for the loan scheme; GM has cut the commission it pays to dealers for steering customers to GMAC. Yet after two years of a dismally poor car market, salesmen are happy to back any plan that helps to move autos...
...women are going beyond their "paramount mission and destiny" by pursuing careers as lawyers. They represent about 10% of the profession, and the proportion is growing: one out of three students now graduating from law school is a woman. Female attorneys are no longer considered "a bizarre thing," as Shirley Hufstedler, Secretary of Education under Jimmy Carter, recalls they Eleanor Holmes Norton were when she was one of two women graduating from Stanford University's law school in 1949 ("It was a bumper crop that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just...
...Standing next to a hot, vibrating, metalworking machine eight hours a day is demanding and physically taxing, but it is also boring and often dangerous. Blue-collar workers are seldom depicted as heroic in popular American culture; indeed, like the television characters Archie Bunker and Laverne and Shirley, they are frequently ridiculed...