Only after she saw 3M's innovation center did she propose a column to her editor, Patricia Kranz.
"Not only did she propose the action that we hoped for, but she also used strong, blunt, plain language," said Cindy Lemek, executive director of All Aboard, a Hartford-based mass transit advocacy group.
Etienne-Manneville submitted "an absolutely outstanding set of ideas about what she would like to do and how she proposed to do it.
-- which means she does propose solutions, but they're ones that involve e) "more left-wing government".
She does not propose to act from her gut, she proposes to act from her brain and her years of experience.
She does not propose that women abandon these traditional roles, because she believes that women can most effectively improve society as pedagogues.
She does not propose any subsidy at all, however, for families who forgo the second income to allow a parent to care for children.
Among the differences in the plans offered by Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton is that she does not propose setting a deadline for American troops to be withdrawn.
"What did Lewis propose to do," she asks, "work?" Virgil might come off as the archetypal medievalist professor sequestered with his papers, but his conservative ideas about proper social behavior make him less absent-minded than stuffy.
And I have also been wanting to go to the new bowling center in the mall... Did you have anything in mind?" If she likes one of your options, she will tell you, and if she doesn't, she will propose something else and you will have demonstrated your assertiveness.
