Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jenkins, a Cambridge resident who has walked his dog in the Radcliffe Yard for the past 10 years, is appointed president of Radcliffe College. "We looked everywhere, and we just couldn't find a qualified woman," explains President...
...face, First Ladyhood looks easy enough: one gets to live in a big house with a large yard, travel a lot and throw fancy dinner parties. Someone else cleans up. But the job -- unpaid and with no days off -- has its pitfalls. The person a pillow away from the presidency is held up to an undefined ideal; she bears all America's conflicting notions about women as wives, mothers, lovers, colleagues and friends. A First Lady should be charming but not all fluff, gracious but not a doormat, substantive but not a co-President. She must defend her husband...
...more harm than good. "A letter-writing campaign is a wonderful thing to do if you're trying to persuade Congress or the Missouri legislature," says an experienced Supreme Court lawyer. "It's not what you do to the Supreme Court of the United States." But NOW President Molly Yard counters that "the court is influenced by public opinion, as is every other political institution in this country." The truth of that claim, like the future of abortion rights, may be put to a decisive test this term...
Trump's latest and biggest and most complicated controversy centers on Manhattan's largest remaining piece of undeveloped land, the 76-acre principality bordering the Hudson River from 59 Street to 72 Street. Once a Penn Central railroad yard, it is now mostly weeds and debris. Trump, who bought it for $90 million in 1984, touts it as a $5 billion Trump City, "a concept that is going to be spectacular." It would feature a 150-story building, the world's tallest ("The city of New York should have the world's tallest building"), plus 7,600 luxury apartments...
...leading the probe, Scotland Yard is getting unprecedented cooperation from security agencies in Europe and the Middle East as well as in the U.S. The FBI is providing substantial assistance, and the National Security Agency is scanning its records for evidence that might be contained in the electronically intercepted telephone and radio conversations of known terrorists...