Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembled at a time (right up till now) when women were excluded automatically and without question from the church, the state, and the universities. This is one reason why women's contributions play little part in the reality that is presented to us. "I would venture to guess," writes Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, "that Anon, who wrote to many poems without signing them, was often a woman...
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...SOUTH: Jimmy Carter still is ahead in nine states, though his lead has been diminishing. Ford has taken a narrow lead in Louisiana, and is ahead by a whisker in Virginia...
...MIDWEST: Carter is out front in Minnesota, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia. He barely holds Missouri. Ford has respectable margins in North Dakota, Nebraska and Indiana. He is well ahead back home in Michigan, and hangs on-but just by his fingertips-in Iowa and Bob Dole's Kansas. South Dakota is seen as a tossup. So are the region's three richest electoral prizes: Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin...
...imposed on a corporation in a pollution case: a $13.2 million fine to be paid by the Allied Chemical Corp. for discharging Kepone and other chemical wastes. Slipshod procedures in the manufacture of the deadly pesticide in Hopewell, Va., had forced the closing of the lower James River in Virginia to fishermen since December; more than 70 people, all employees of the now closed plant or members of their families, had been treated for Kepone poisoning, symptoms of which include brain and liver damage, memory failure and slurred speech (TIME...