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Also, if any of them were good-looking, as some were, they were sure to be a topic of office conversation. Comments such as "Did you see [name] today?" or the day's skirt analyzed for "fashion concerns" were often made within earshot. Even the men who did not actively partake in these conversations did not seem to offer much in the way of meaningful conversational alternatives to the women, with many seemingly uncomfortable around the better-looking women. Again what was so unsettling about these situations was not merely that they occurred, but there were no women who could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inspecting the Glass Ceiling | 8/18/1995 | See Source »

Major League Baseball came a step closer to losing its antitrust exemption when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-8 to lift the rule. No other professional league has such a deal, which classifies baseball as a sport rather than a business, and thusallows employers to skirt some federal labor laws. The measure now goes to the Senate floor, where a vote is expected to be extremely close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVANCE TO GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200 | 8/3/1995 | See Source »

...Danny Kaye stuff, whatever we could do to entertain them," she says, adding that the isolated troops were easy to please. "They were great audiences. All you needed was two legs and a skirt...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Radcliffe Rallies in War Effort | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...carrier did skirt the fierce battle for control of the island of Okinawa, and Hiestand was present in Tokyo Bay as diplomats signed Japan's unconditional surrender...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Taking the Long Road Back | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...taxes. These individuals take citizenship in St. Kitts, the Bahamas, Belize, or other low-tax countries that wouldn't mind having a billionaire or two to double their tax revenues. However, they and their families maintain residence in America. Only about a dozen people a year try to skirt their tax responsibility in this manner, but the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that if a surcharge were applied on this wealth it would net $3.6 billion. That's a lot of school lunches...

Author: By Andrei H. Cerny, | Title: The Senate and the Fury | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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