Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship roared higher and higher into the cloudless Florida sky, the words of Lisa Malone, the new voice of Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...
Henderson is an attractive, birdlike woman, small-boned, with coppery hair tufted up at the sides. She has been helping people look better since that dim era (the 1970s) when only politicians and models had images to worry about. Henderson started out in England, where she "did her postgraduate work in movement and body language" and worked in modeling. When she married an Atlanta physician and came to this country, she discovered the thriving all- American business of image consulting for ordinary people. It struck Henderson that all the signals about class, education and authority conveyed by speech in England...
...advice offered battered women is for them to leave the men who abuse them. But experts say some men, panicked by loss of control over their previously cowered partners, become even more violent after separation. "It's extremely rare that you read about a man who has beaten a woman to death while she's living with him," says Ellen Pence of the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minn. "It's when she leaves him that he kills...
...Clark--whose commitment to minority faculty hiring has been questioned--noted that the appointments of the school's third Black and sixth woman "gave me a good head start" on improving gender and racial diversity on the faculty...
Last Friday, St. Mary's Julie Croteau became the first woman ever to play a NCAA baseball game. The freshman went 0 for 3 in the team's 4-1 loss to Spring Garden...