Word: honorables
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After a 1977 agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe College, most prizes formerly designated exclusively for men or women became open to both sexes. In some cases, however, where a donor's intent had been to honor specifically a man or a woman, the sex prerequisite prevailed. Such was the case of the Frothingham Award, for which one of the selection criteria is "manliness." Now the Frothingham Award is also under review, as Harvard attorneys determine whether it is possible to award the prize to women as well...
...great honor for me to chair Earth Day 2000, especially because the primary focus of this year's campaign is global warming. Global warming has to be the greatest misnomer of the new millennium, as it is such a benign, almost soothing name for the single most important environmental threat to the future of our planet and all living things...
...biggest Earth Day ever on April 22, 2000. Events will be taking place in every time zone on the planet in cities such as New York, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Manila, creating a continuous, 24-hour Earth Day celebration. And it will be an honor for me to chair the Earth Day 2000 event in Washington. It's time to send a message that politicians and corporations can't ignore...
While some companies--Educational List Sources among them--choose to honor student requests to have their names removed from the list, a DMA spokesperson said they are under no obligation...
...corner to the West Side Ecumenical Ministry to announce a plan to help the working poor buy health insurance, make a down payment on a new home and build up personal savings. The price tag: a very un-Republican $42 billion over five years. "Our economy must also honor and reward the hard work of factory and field, of waiting tables and driving cabs," Bush told the largely Hispanic audience. "Not just enterprise, but sheer effort; not just technology, but toil...