Word: wieder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premiere as for proving that gay men don't vaporize after age 30.) But Spin City's Carter Heywood is the networks' only gay person of color, and we've scarcely seen working-class gays or bisexuals since Sandra Bernhard on Roseanne. Speaking of which, anybody remember lesbians? Judy Wieder, editor in chief of the gay-and-lesbian magazine The Advocate, says that although gay men's sexuality "seems to be more threatening to society in general than [that of] gay women," lesbians have largely been left out of TV's gay renaissance...
...came last Tuesday, one day after Citron resigned and CS First Boston demanded immediate repayment of a $1.2 billion loan that the treasurer had used to buy bonds. County supervisor Harriett Wieder awoke before dawn to the sound of a police officer pounding on her door and summoning her to an emergency briefing. By 11 a.m. California time, Orange County's troubles were the talk of regulators in Washington. At 5:30 p.m. the county filed for bankruptcy protection to prevent other creditors from calling their loans and selling the fund's bonds that they held as collateral...
...Supreme Court is only one vote away from outlawing abortion, and the Houston convention showed that that's what will happen if Bush is back. A majority of Orange Republicans are pro-choice, and this issue is finally resonating with them." It's "not just the economy," says Harriett Wieder, an Orange County supervisor. "I have to deal with the growing number of white collars who are crowding our emergency rooms. We need national health care, and Bush doesn...
...Bush is sticking to his antiabortion stance to placate conservatives. That rigid stand could trigger a revolt by Republican women who are threatening to cross party lines to support candidates who favor the right to abortion. "All my adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder, a member of the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif. "Now I'm a woman Republican. Gender comes before party." That so many G.O.P. women agree with her could mean trouble under the big tent...