She championed recreational drug prevention causes by founding the " Just Say No " drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as first lady.

She studied the relationships between personality, art, language and culture, insisting that no trait existed in isolation or self-sufficiency, a theory which she championed in her 1934 Patterns of Culture.

She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

She led efforts to prevent the passage of a state income tax championed by Governor Don Sundquist and for this was referred to as " one of the heroes of the Great Tennessee Tax Revolt of 2000 " by a writer for the online conservative magazine American Thinker in 2007.

She divorced him in 1980, drawing criticism of hypocrisy from the Christian right regarding the indissolubility of Christian marriage which Bryant had championed and " the deterioration of the family " against which she had preached .< ref >

She was the co-sponsor of the Equal Rights Amendment ( 1977 ) and championed bills to end discrimination and fund spouse abuse centers statewide.

She expanded factory investigations, reduced the workweek for women to 48 hours, and championed minimum wage and unemployment insurance laws.

She set up the Homelessness Task Force which led to radical homelessness legislation and she championed the community ownership of housing by tenants including the removal of £ 1. 6bn of Glasgow debt.

She also championed the first broadband strategy for Scotland and took action to tackle the ' digital divide '.

She championed women's rights in parliament, pushing through legislation which allowed women to be involved in the legal profession.

She championed the cause of HIV / AIDS and established the first HIV / AIDS prevention center in her country.

She learned from social reformers Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, who championed new approaches to dealing with poverty.

She also championed new multi-media approaches to major fundraising entertainment events.

She spent some years translating the poems of Anna Akhmatova from Russian into English ( published as Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova, 1985 ), and she championed translation as an important art at which every poet should try her hand.

She only served for one year, however, after having been chosen and championed by then Labour leader John Smith to become the new leader of the PES.

She was introduced to Thelonious Monk by jazz pianist / composer Mary Lou Williams in Paris while attending the " Salon du Jazz 1954 ", and championed his work in the USA, writing the liner notes for his 1962 Columbia album Criss-Cross, and even took criminal responsibility when she and Monk were charged with marijuana possession by the police.

She championed his music, premiering many of his works, and introducing him to his publisher, Elkin, with whom he remained for the rest of his life.

She championed Montesquieu ’ s satirical Persian Letters and succeeded in obtaining the author ’ s election to the Académie française.

She was championed by guitar great Herb Ellis, who referred to her as " the new superstar of guitar ".

She championed his work until her own health, and degradation of eyesight, caused her to stop in 1959.

She championed the preservation of Mount Royal Park, and served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Parks and Play-grounds Association.

She served as mayor of Webbwood for eight years, and championed the establishment of a home for the aged in the Sudbury District.

She worked as an elevator operator, a sales clerk and a dental assistant.

She presided over the introduction of the new NHS dental contract of April 2006.

She then obtained a post-graduate diploma in dental nursing, and worked as a dental nurse from 1967 to 1981.

She was a tutor of dental nursing in Wellington from 1982 to 1984.

She then took on odd jobs, such as truck driver, dental receptionist, and even elevator operator, after 1949.

She has two brothers, Luke who lives in Utah and Chancey who is a dental hygienist.

She also worked in her husband's dental clinic as a nurse for 10 years.

She wears glasses, has had dental braces and has " mouse-brown " hair, and initially considers herself " repulsive-looking " and " dumb ", although she is quite good at math.

She returned to Western Australia where she finished high school, and later worked as a dental nurse with the Road Dental Unit.

She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1990, planning to be a dentist ; she was accepted to New York University Dental School, but had reservations about going to dental school.

She caught the bullet meant for Chow with her gold-plated teeth and a dentist reconstructed her dental work and even threw in a free plastic surgery on her face, making her pretty again.

She was at one point the only medical practitioner at the hospital in Pelkosenniemi, performing dental and veterinary work as well.

She earned an Associate's Degree in Dental Assistance, and eventually became a registered dental assistant.

She returned to her hometown in early 1997 to establish a charitable organization and multi-purpose health center to help the poor people of Minalin who live in remote areas and do not have easy access to medical and dental care.

She was made crew chief at McDonald's, and after graduation, found a job in her chosen field as a dental assistant.

She found that " Tlatilco ", " Cuicuilco ", " Monte Albán " and " Cholula " populations followed an overall " Sundadont " dental pattern " characteristic of Southeast Asia " rather than a " Sinodont " dental pattern " characteristic of Northeast Asia ".< ref name =" Haydenblit "> Haydenblit, R. ( 1996 ), Dental variation among four prehispanic Mexican populations.

She took a job with her uncle as a dental assistant.

She moved to Vienna, where she worked in a dental supply company.

She gave up her dental career and enrolled in the renowned Buchner School of Cosmetology in Salzburg and received her Diploma in facial treatment, decorative make-up, pedicure, manicure, and body massage.