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On March 31, 2011 theatres across New York City will screen Gayle Ferraro's film "To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America" which will be accompanied by a taped discussion with Dr. Yunus.
Vivian Norris: An Update on the Muhammad Yunus Situation Vivian Norris 2011
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After Ferraro's failed run for the vice presidency, she lost two bids to represent New York in the U.S. Senate.
NYCity News Service: FBI Probed Geraldine Ferraro NYCity News Service 2011
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He didn't learn it from home: Mr. Ferraro's mother was deaf and mute, and they communicated in sign language:
You Tawkin' to New Yawk? Lana Bortolot 2011
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Ferraro's efforts set the stage for Clinton's presidential bid in 2008 and John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate that same year.
Geraldine Ferraro, 75, recalled as political trailblazer 2011
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The other most prominent moment of Ferraro's historic campaign came in her debate with Vice President George H.W. Bush on October 11, 1984.
Joel K. Goldstein: Mondale-Ferraro: Changing History Joel K. Goldstein 2011
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Tragically for the women of this country, in the years since Ferraro's nomination, the nation's view on the requisite qualifications for a woman presidential or vice-presidential candidate has radically shifted.
Rebecca Sive: Planned Parenthood's Almost Demise, Michele Bachmann's Presidential Exploration and Geraldine Ferraro's Death Mark New Chapter in American History Rebecca Sive 2011
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Ferraro's nomination, capping consideration of several women to be Walter Mondale's vice-presidential running mate, proved the modern feminist political movement right: the nomination, remarkably just a couple years after the ERA was soundly defeated, was proof, notwithstanding, that one of the two major American political parties thought a woman could hold the most important political office in the world.
Rebecca Sive: Planned Parenthood's Almost Demise, Michele Bachmann's Presidential Exploration and Geraldine Ferraro's Death Mark New Chapter in American History Rebecca Sive 2011
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The final proof came that the Ferraro era was over when Sarah Palin mourned the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, mourned Ferraro's passing as though the two were comrades-in-arms, blithely ignoring the fact, and the implications of the fact, that the two are of two different ilks: Ferraro being for women, as well as of women; Palin being, at best, a caricature of a woman who cares.
Rebecca Sive: Planned Parenthood's Almost Demise, Michele Bachmann's Presidential Exploration and Geraldine Ferraro's Death Mark New Chapter in American History Rebecca Sive 2011
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For, in 2012, we may well learn what sort of woman candidate will carry the American day for years to come: the woman who takes Geraldine Ferraro's approach, i.e., a woman who governs for women, including for their most basic human right, the right to control their reproductive destiny, or the woman who takes the Michele Bachmann approach; women, it's sufficient to elect me, just because I happen to be a woman.
Rebecca Sive: Planned Parenthood's Almost Demise, Michele Bachmann's Presidential Exploration and Geraldine Ferraro's Death Mark New Chapter in American History Rebecca Sive 2011
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The other most prominent moment of Ferraro's historic campaign came in her debate with Vice President George H.W. Bush on October 11, 1984.
Joel K. Goldstein: Mondale-Ferraro: Changing History Joel K. Goldstein 2011
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