Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only part of the book that Bellow develops fully is Clara's character. Her name says it all: She is a combination of a naive, good-mannered, rural woman (Clara) and a lustful, svelte, executive yuppie (Velde). Bellow actually addresses the reader, as if to say that Clara, and not the plot, is what's important...
There was an old woman who lived in a semidetached shoe box. She had two too many children, who didn't know what to do in Margaret Thatcher's England. And neither did their spouses, their lovers, their friends, their neighbors or, for that matter, the little old lady...
...Huntington's disease gene on the same chromosome, but he needed a larger sample to confirm his findings. This was provided by Wexler, who had previously traveled to Venezuela to chart the family tree of a clan of some 5,000 people, all of them descendants of a woman who died of Huntington's $ disease a century ago. Working with DNA samples from affected family members, Gusella and Wexler in 1983 concluded that they had indeed found a Huntington's marker, which was located near one end of chromosome...
President Derek C. Bok said earlier this week that Putnam's energetic recruitment of minority faculty members as chair of the government department weighed heavily toward his selection as dean. The Kennedy School currently has one woman and one minority among its tenured faculty...
...player stands at 5-ft., 8-in., 130 pounds and plays a mean first base. But what separates this player from the rest is that this first baseman is a woman...