Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...families that they had a future together. "I was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner before the movie appeared," grins Olmos. "It was quite a dinner. They served artichokes, and I'd never eaten one." Even after the couple was married in a small ceremony in 1971, the Keels "weren't thrilled" by the union, says Kaija. "I was very mad at them for a while, but now that I'm a parent, I can understand. They were worried about me going off so young with a crazy person with no money...
...over the Sistersville Tank Works in West Virginia to save her job. Wells, a bookkeeper, bought the company in 1984 in partnership with her daughter Darlene just as the firm was about to fold. Says Wells: "The men didn't think we would last for six weeks. But there weren't any other jobs around, so they stuck with us." The company, which builds storage tanks and provides field services for Amoco, DuPont, Union Carbide and other clients, has more than tripled its sales under the ownership of the two women, from $1 million in 1984 to $3.5 million...
...always played so well in the games we weren't supposed to win," Felsen said. "Then we'd play pathetically in games we were supposed...
...said to myself, `of course I'm going.' I didn't know why. It was very weird. But everyone assumed they were going. We weren't political though. We weren't great Kennedy fans...
...1970s it was not as extraordinary as it would have been earlier" to be a woman in a meeting, Shore says. "Obviously we were never 50 percent, but rarely did I go someplace where there weren't any women in the room...