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...spokeswoman for CFLT admitted that King takes "a more hard-line approach." Some businessmen believe that King's tactics were responsible for a hostile reaction by the legislature, leading to punitive measures, such as the extra tax on insurance companies passed in 1972. Another CFLT representative explained that PAIIC takes "softer, more intellectual approach," but that the two group still coordinate all advertising and speaking engagements...
...small swarm of lightning bugs flickering, and the Times snuffs out most of them. Ms., for example, is to be used only in quoted material or in discussing the term itself. The stylebook decrees that some words whose original form includes man should remain unchanged: it proscribes chairwoman and spokeswoman on the grounds that chairman and spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned not to use "designations that...
McCauley, a dry-wall finisher from the Kentucky hill country, and his wife, an articulate spokeswoman for Save Our Community Schools, are keeping their children home to protest the busing plan. Their two boys would have had to get up at 6:35 a.m. and ride a bus for 50 minutes to reach Parkland Junior High, a black ghetto school 22 miles away in Louisville. "They won't go there-ever," vows Mrs. McCauley...
...been a forthright spokeswoman for the Equal Rights Amendment and liberalized abortion laws, and has calmly brushed aside the criticism she knew would be coming. "When somebody asks you how you stand on an issue, you're very foolish if you try to beat around the bush-you just meet yourself going around the bush the other way." On the other hand, she admits that when she occasionally disagrees with her husband, she "wouldn't want to embarrass him by opposing his position [in public]. That I'll do in the privacy of our own sitting room...
Claiming that the bank is the largest United States investor in Argentina, the group chanted "The First National's investments support political murder." Ruth Robinson, a spokeswoman for the group, said over 100 political murders have been covered up by Argentina's military dictatorship in the last three months...