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Trying to combine a family life with a career, many women choose entrepreneurship as a way of gaining some control over their schedules. Phyllis Gillis, for example, quit her night job as a waitress in 1982 and started Entrepreneurial Communications, a Princeton public relations firm, so that she could spend more time with her six-year-old son. Says Gillis, author of the 1984 book Entrepreneurial Mothers: "I was willing to spin my wheels for a while and grow my company slowly while my son was small. Now it's full speed ahead...
...foster children and the workers who care for them are black. Local residents, many of whom joined in a lawsuit against the home, fretted about falling property values; others argued that the babies' visiting relatives might commit crimes. "They don't belong here," says Mary Meyer, a retired waitress. "The city pushed this down our throats." That sense of alienation was accentuated by the city's failure to hold public hearings or educate the neighborhood about its plans. "It's a racial issue, but it's also a political issue, an economic issue, a class issue and a fear issue...
...menu offered a hearty fare of steaks and ribs. Today the macho ambience remains, but entrees like wild brown rice with lentils and pasta salad with raspberry vinaigrette have sprouted on the menu. Reason: Ditka's regular customers demanded meatless dishes. "And those who still eat meat," says a waitress, "are beginning to eat less...
...West Texas pipeline worker and a waitress, Rather began his journalism career with a part-time job at the Houston Chronicle after graduating from Sam Houston State Teachers College. He moved to a local radio station, then to KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston. His intrepid coverage of Hurricane Carla, which swept over Galveston in 1961, caught the eye of CBS executives, who soon hired him as a correspondent...
Perhaps the most terrible of all these terrible stories is that of Holly Peters, 24, who was raised in foster homes and worked for a time as a waitress, got married, went broke, lived on the dole. She was so run-down when her son Benjamin was born that he weighed only 4 1/2 lbs.; he survived in an oxygen tent, receiving blood injections. During that hospital stay, he contracted a viral infection that left him partly blind, deaf, hydrocephalic, brain damaged. After three months, the hospital released him and told Holly to give him phenobarbital when he had seizures...