Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard union movement represents a move by women to speak for themselves and to take their work seriously rather than just caring for others and hoping that they will be taken care of by the University, Gilligan says. "For many women that feels selfish and dangerous," she says...
...fact that the support staff workers at Harvard, who are 83 percent female, have found a voice and are able to speak for themselves about their concerns is an important act in itself, Gilligan says. "The emphasis on connection, speaking, voice, creating a union by creating relationships rather than creating a union by rules is the essence of what I write about in my book, In A Different Voice," Gilligan says...
...took time out from her Washington duties this week for a sojourn in Cambridge. The legislator, who briefly considered making a run for the presidency in the last election, participated in an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum on child care and the family on Thursday. This weekend she will speak at a Law School conference on family...
Being able to speak to two sides while they cannot seriously talk to each other is a tremendous plus in diplomacy. At times some Washington officials sought to overplay "the China card," but the Chinese had a keen sense of how far to let things go. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter established full diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing, putting the relationship on a permanent, rather than personal, basis...
...Freeze-drying human bodies, however, would be an expensive proposition -- about $15,000 to $18,000 apiece. Since there is no law in Florida against freeze-drying humans, however, all it would take for such a perpetual viewing chapel to take root, so to speak, would be a mortuary license, a corpse, someone living willing to shell out $15,000 to $18,000, and, of course, one of the machines...