Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit, Harvard has elected a woman to its previously all-male Corporation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has formed a special committee to review faculty hiring practices and the College did provide $500 this week for Safestreets, a night escort system. But this slight bit of progress came only after the vehement agitation on the part of students--from the bottom up, if you will...
...Guarenas, a 32-year-old pregnant woman who was not involved in the rioting was shot to death and at least 126 people were wounded, said journalist Igor Camacho of the Voz de Guarenas newspaper...
...three gold medals and a silver in the 1988 Olympics. She missed making the 1980 team by a couple of spots. In 1984, she won the silver medal in the 200 meters and was ready to become a superstar. In 1988, she proved she was the fastest woman in the world, breaking two records...
...been in Mandela House for only one month, she confided, "I keep asking myself, 'If I was back out on the streets and offered some rocks, what would I say?' Before, my answer would be 'yes!' But now it's 'probably.' God, that's a big step." Another woman responded, "Amen." But Thomas' steady message, then as now, is "You say you're better, but just how much better are you?" She tells the groups, "You've got to remind yourself every day why you're here because the closer you come to leaving, the closer you'll come...
Several women have been expelled or have bolted from Mandela House. One was a mother whose legs Thomas held in the hospital all night while she was giving birth. Two weeks later, the woman suddenly left with her baby. "I felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach," Thomas says. "For the first time, I cried...