Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that lecture supposed to be inspirational to the women students in the room--already outnumbered by men 4 to 1? Here was a political leader casting doubt on women, and most of their class eagerly applauding him. It is alienating enough for these students to sit as the only woman in their section, or one of two or three women, as it usually is in Gov intro courses. Now they were insulted by a man they are supposed to look...
Estrich also delivered a speech entitled "Politics, Women and the '90s." She said women should unite around the issue of reproductive freedom and cannot afford to "sit back and contemplate and take stock" of their achievements...
Americans should "sit on the edge of tomorrowcontemplating," she said, "let us find our own KewGarden...
...background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Furthermore, I believe that it is a credit to the minority students at Harvard that they can choose to eat with whomever they wish. Besides, if a group of minority students wishes to sit at a table together, so what? However, it is also true that a table of minorities hardly represents the entire minority population...
...himself a product of the central valley, has spent years scouting irrigation districts. "It's taken a decade of learning local customs to get where we can have this little discussion," he says of the morning's talks. "There are still some groups in the valley that wouldn't sit in the same room with us." E.D.F. hopes to entice two of the more progressive irrigation districts, Firebaugh and Broadview, to risk heresy and agree to a 10,000-acre- foot pilot project. "The party line is that nobody takes water from agriculture. That's what they're going against...