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When he was a student at Swarthmore, Dukakis said, student debt was "unheard of." In today's dollars, a year of school cost him about...
...undergraduate era it was easy to go through four years without ever hearing a course lecture delivered by a woman, let alone by a black. Open homosexuality was unheard of, and the unchecked sexual harassment of students by some notorious members of the faculty was accepted as an immutable tradition of campus life. This Harvard was about to be swept away...
...took the largest single bloc in the 545-member chamber. Vajpayee faces an uphill struggle to hold on to power, however. He must survive a constitutionally mandated vote of confidence before May 31, and his alliance is 74 seats short of a majority. Though buying political loyalty is not unheard of in India, recruiting that many politicians so quickly would be difficult even under normal circumstances--and these are hardly normal...
...male colleagues and, in many cases, from their male supervisors." Although all the sexist acts were allegedly committed by Americans, the suit charges that Mitsubishi's Japanese managers were complicitous by their complacency. Japan's manager society is far more sexist than America's. In Japan women are almost unheard of in management...
...mothers work part-time, though they routinely make less an hour than full-time workers doing the same job. And since 1990 the nation's mostly female temp force has mushroomed more than 85%. Yet only 8% of temps receive health benefits; pensions, vacations and sick days are virtually unheard of. In some cases, those part-time jobs are second jobs: in 1971, 20% of moonlighters were women; today almost half are. The trend, says Karen Nussbaum, who is heading a new women's bureau at the AFL-CIO, is that "more family hours are going into the paid work...