Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main reason for the book's success is the resonance of the questions Faludi raises. Were all the movies and television shows and advertisements that featured blissful mothers and frazzled career women intended, either consciously or subconsciously, to sow doubts in women's minds about their real goals? Or, as her critics counter, did the mass media merely pick up on concerns that already existed and touch a nerve that had been rubbed raw by a generation of out-of-touch feminist leaders...
Through African Eyes: Recent Works by African Filmmakers--Ousmane Sembene and Thiemo Faty Sow's Camp de Thiaroye will be presented by the Committee on African Studies. Science Center A, 7:30 p.m. Free...
...suggestion that he benefited from a series of "sweetheart" business deals while a Senator, including loans and real estate investments that went unreported on his financial- disclosure forms. Thus far there is no evidence that Chiles is guilty of anything more than sloppy recordkeeping. But Nelson is trying to sow doubt in voters' minds about his opponent's integrity, the linchpin of Chiles' campaign. In response, Chiles crashed a Nelson press conference in Tallahassee last month and angrily accused his opponent of smear tactics. "If you've decided you want to be Governor so bad you've got to destroy...
...Calm down, calm down, calm down," he ordered. Those who opposed his plan, he said, were "trying to sow mistrust." This was no time for "cheap demagoguery." He had contemplated not running in the next presidential election, he said, but decided that to withdraw now would be cowardly. The national interest demanded "quick action on this matter." The chastened legislators listened well: they voted 347-24 to pass the bill and send it on to the Congress of People's Deputies for final approval...
...Frank truly is, but not the ordinary, hefty domestic animal known as Sus scrofa. He is a Vietnamese potbellied porker, a miniature breed on the verge of becoming America's trendiest pet -- at least where zoning laws permit -- and one of its priciest (a well-bred sow reportedly sold for $34,000). About one-tenth the size of the average Hampshire pig, mature potbellies weigh from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. and stand coffee-table tall. Bright and affectionate, the primarily dark gray or black porkers will happily feed on Purina Lab Mini- Pig Chow Grower, or on almost anything...