Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wattleton, the only child of a woman who was a Fundamentalist minister in St. Louis, was appointed head of Planned Parenthood eleven years ago, at age 34. She was a plucky choice for an institution traditionally headed by button- down white men, an organization that had become as all-American as the Girl Scouts and debutante parties. Within her first three years, Wattleton, a former nurse and midwife whose primary bureaucratic experience had been running the Dayton affiliate, shifted the organization's structure to a crisply corporate one, reshuffling more than half of the national office's employees...
Wattleton can be imperious. She travels first-class while her aides ride coach. Recently in Chicago, she retired to a hotel suite for a solitary lunch. As she bit into her sandwich, she asked an aide to get her a Coke. The young woman returned with a can of Pepsi. "Is this all right?" she asked. "No," Wattleton replied. "I said Coke, not Pepsi. There is a difference...
Politics is not an intellectual pursuit for her; her political education was her own experience as a black woman. She never marched in the civil rights movement; her parents were her political models. "I can't separate myself from the fact that I grew up as a black child. My parents were quietly defiant of racism. I was born and raised in the North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets...
...foreign policy triumphs of the decade -- the moral shift in American diplomatic thinking away from collaborating with authoritarian allies to standing with democracy. Last week, when it came to a choice between a military putsch that might have brought a vicious but strategic stability to the Philippines and a woman who headed the weak but nevertheless legitimate government of the country, Washington chose Aquino...
...nightmare began nearly seven years ago. In the early-morning hours of Jan. 11, 1983, Nancy Cruzan's car swerved on an icy and deserted Missouri country road. The car flipped and crashed. The 25-year-old woman tumbled out and landed facedown in a ditch. Medical help arrived promptly enough to save her life but not fast enough to save her oxygen-deprived brain...