Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WOMEN are reminded of their separate but equal status before they even arrive in Cambridge. Instead of getting accepted to Harvard, letters sent to female applicants simply congratulate them on admission to Radcliffe. Who applied to Radcliffe? Who wanted to frame a letter of admittance to Radcliffe? Certainly not the women who have worked hard--just as hard as their male classmates--to get into Harvard. Women don't want a slighted invitation...
Harvard sophomore Char Joslin last week became the first-ever Harvard woman to snag first-team All-Ivy status in three different sports...
...system is so interconnected that the U.S. could not hope to alter it at this stage, even if it did take advantage of American military might. It is not the thousands of warheads dotting the Eastern hemisphere and pointing at U.S. cities that are the main threat to our status as a superpower, but our increasing dependency on foreign powers. There has been a transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Japan that could not have been imagined 25 years ago, as America fell from being the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor...
...women would suggest that Raisa sets a realistic standard for the future. Quite the contrary. The hopes and dreams of most Soviet women in fact sound startlingly unemancipated to the Western ear. They rarely challenge the status quo, which entitles men to be waited on, first by their mothers, then by their wives and female employees. Nor do women question the concept that they should assume responsibility for all child-related matters, whether that involves family planning, child rearing or, if a marriage breaks up, child support. Says Tanya, a Moscow teacher who, like many of the women interviewed, requested...
Reagan and Gorbachev are expected to use the Moscow talks to issue a detailed status report specifying what issues have and have not been resolved. As Reagan said in an interview late last week, "We'll try to see if we can't come up with some help for the people ((in Geneva)) that have been handling the details of this...