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Some might argue that because the United States lagged in recognizing equal legal rights for women, the mood of 1863 would have been hostile to recognizing that women as well as men were equal in the sight of God.
The American Canvas study, published in 1997, argues that arts institutions are elitist, complacent, and largely hostile to popular audiences.
Can this hostile dependency be cured?
In the wake of American Home Products' friendly bid for Warner-Lambert and Pfizer's $80 billion (or $74 billion, depending on who's counting) hostile counter-offer (click here to read an "Explainer" on hostile takeovers), expectations are growing that we're going to see a wave of mergers in the pharmaceutical industry.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, before feminism came to mean anti-pornography statutes and laws against "hostile work environments" and other forms of censoriousness, there were all kinds of feminists.