Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want anybody calling me Ms. I have certain ideas that I had even before the feminist movement came along. I always believed in these things, like equal pay for equal work, but I can't say that I went out and fought for those principles...
...nationalist drift in the Baltics has aroused fear among the region's sizable Russian minority. When the Estonian supreme soviet voted last week to impose a two-year residency requirement for voters in local elections, supporters of the pro-Russian Intermovement and Joint Council of Work Collectives denounced the measures, charging that they consigned recent Russian immigrants to a political "pale of settlement." At least 10,000 workers joined strikes at some 30 enterprises. Since most of the affected plants are under the control of Moscow ministries, many Estonians viewed the labor unrest as another in a series of provocations...
More than half the White House's work flows through Porter's six In boxes --including an URGENT one for briefing papers and memos, many of which bear little blue handwritten notes imprinted FROM THE DESK OF GEORGE BUSH. Before signing on, Porter says with a chuckle, "I thought he was interested mostly in foreign policy...
...zoos fight back, they are pulling along the public with some shrewd tactics. Conservationists often select an irresistible, oversize crowd pleaser -- pandas are perfect, but snow leopards and black rhinos work fine -- and lead a campaign to preserve the creature's habitat. "There is a utility in the concern for the giant panda," says the National Zoo's director Michael Robinson. "Pandas are relatively stupid and uninteresting animals. But they happen to be photogenic and appealing, and they help focus people's attention." Big animals need big swatches of habitat, and so in the process a lot of less sexy...
...reason for the desultory pace is that many public schools are failing to meet the needs of minority students well before they reach high school graduation, leaving them academically unprepared for college-level work. Also, some 38 states have toughened admissions standards for public universities, raising the hurdle that minorities must surmount...