Word: wright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, opened a weekend symposium at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) with a call to women to unify and become a more powerful force in politics and religion...
There was something oddly charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...
Lawrence Kurdek, Ph.D., the Wright State researcher who wrote the seven-year-itch study, said that its grim statistics actually made him hopeful. "Knowing the pattern of marriage relationships might help couples stay together, if they can come up with positive ways to cope with it," he says. "We have to build into marriage the idea that there will be lots of change...
...presidency within the next decade." You may have seen their high-profile ad campaign in numerous national magazines, a mock ballot printed with the photos of 20 women who were chosen as strong potential candidates. The photos include those of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, Marian Wright Edelman and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). Though the ballot is only hypothetical, its collection of portraits and profiles makes more tangible in the minds of the American public the possibility that a woman might someday be president. After all, with so many strong candidates...
Three of the starting linemen spent most of last season playing junior varsity football. Despite boasting one of the Ivy's top linebackers in Kevin Wright, Lions defenders sacked Wilford only twice...