Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quest to break the two-hour, 20-minute barrier, the victory was her first over Samuelson in three tries. She led every step of the women's race and was not seriously challenged after the early stages, finishing in at 2:24:33, the third-fastest time for a woman...
...support and affirm a woman's right to control her own body and her own life is at the heart of the Women's Movement. Rape and sexual violence against women directly threaten those values; so does censorship of women's sexuality. Neither should be condoned...
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live, breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Thatcher's England...
Aesthetics often dictates against hyphenation. Says a Washington lawyer representing small businesses who was born Joel Rothstein and is married to a woman named Wolfson: "Rothstein-Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave...
...Taking a look from the woman's point of view...