Word: spokeswoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very odd speaking before so powerful a branch of the white male establishment," said Steinem-a New York writer and prominent spokeswoman for the women's movement-addressing her speech to "friends and sisters...
Women from the Boston area, described by a spokeswoman as "feminist, anti-imperialist, socialist," planned Saturday's march. About eight women organized the building takeover, and few of the marchers themselves knew the building's locale. Harvard had stationed police in the Yard to prevent a seizure there...
Helen Nowlis, 57, a University of Rochester counselor and ombudsman, has become increasingly well known as a spokeswoman for those who feel that the nation is underestimating the complexity of the drug problem. As chairman of the U.S. Office of Education advisory panel on drug education, she has spent the past year crisscrossing the country to sell her point of view to state agencies, school systems and colleges. Her philosophy began to take shape twenty years ago, when she participated in one of the first comprehensive studies of the social, emotional and physical results of drugs, and concluded that "there...
...feminists think clearly? Do they know anything about biology? What about their maturity, their morality, their sexuality? Ironically, Kate Millett herself contributed to the growing skepticism about the movement by acknowledging at a recent meeting that she is bisexual. The disclosure is bound to discredit her as a spokeswoman for her cause, cast further doubt on her theories, and reinforce the views of those skeptics who routinely dismiss all liberationists as lesbians...
...organizations in Japan started a boycott against buying home-built color TV sets. To help spread the word, they held meetings with members of the employees' social clubs that Japanese firms usually use to promote company loyalty. "Color TV sets cost about $100 to build," said a spokeswoman, Tsuruko Haruno, "and they are sold to us for four times that amount. It just is too much...