Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since those days in the '60s, the Woman's Movement has been suffering from an image problem. Along the way, "feminist" became a dirty word. The daughters of the Woman's Movement benefitted from their mothers' hard work, but failed to carry the torch any further. The Woman's Movement stopped moving...
...Word on the negotiations between congressional investigators and Dean came as HUD officials more than doubled--to $1.1 billion--their estimate of the losses in one program suspended because of scandals plaguing the agency...
Students at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grouped together this spring to form the May Fourth Foundation, which attempted to raise money to buy word processors and fax machines to send back to students in China. And students from the Boston area founded the China Information Center with the aim of gathering and spreading information about the prodemocracy movement...
These twelve stories issue up-to-the-minute dispatches from the sexual wars, and the news is not good for either side. The men, selfish and distracted, bolt at the first hint of that dread word, commitment. The women work at being hip and wary but are as overmastered by virility as any Victorian maiden ("With his touch, the will seemed to drain out of her"). Susan Minot, who made a notable debut with her 1986 novel Monkeys, has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds...
...dusty, sunbaked capital of Khartoum. Paratroop and armored units surrounded the presidential palace and government ministries. The city's international airport and key bridges were closed, but communications lines remained open. The Egyptian-owned Middle East News Agency reported the arrest of some officials, but there was no immediate word on el Mahdi's whereabouts...