Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became too great. Local TV was showing black congressional employees working in sweatshop conditions; Roll Call, a Capitol Hill weekly, was printing stories of sexual harassment of female workers. So last week the House finally applied the anti-discrimination laws to itself. It got around the separation-of-powers argument neatly by setting up an office staffed by its own members and employees to enforce the law -- a solution that was just as readily available in 1964. The Senate is expected to follow suit next year...
...with his economic nationalist talk, is that U.S. companies are the victims of unfair foreign trade practices. Japan, in particular, is accused of erecting barriers against American imports and of "dumping" products in the U.S. at prices that are below the cost of manufacture. The only response, the argument goes, is to protect American industry with quotas and higher tariffs...
...election in the Heitgers' neighborhood may come down to a referendum on the economy. Republican claims of continued prosperity were bolstered by Friday's announcement that unemployment dropped 0.2 points in September, to 5.4%. But the Democratic argument that most new jobs tend to be low-paying was also bolstered, by a 1.3% decline in inflation-adjusted hourly wage rates...
Statistics like these are probably less important than personal perceptions. After the debate, Larry Kirsch, 57, a factory worker who has survived layoffs, and his wife Mearl were at the center of an argument about the local economy. Finally, Mearl turned to her friends and complained laughingly about her husband: "He's the one who has been screaming for eight years about the bad things Reagan did to us, and now he's gone all wishy-washy and is saying things aren't so bad." If that is the final verdict of west Toledo, Bush may successfully hold...
...precisely the point. By talking to Botha, black leaders considered implacable enemies of apartheid provide him with a political breakthrough. They handshake him out of isolation and invest him with the credentials of international respectability. Televised images of black leaders welcoming him to their lands bolster his ritual argument: southern Africa is an interlocking unit that cannot hope to solve its problems without South Africa's wealth and skills. More immediately, the visible evidence that black African states are cooperating with him helps Botha undermine the sanctions campaign in the U.S. and Europe. "Allegations that South Africa is a destabilizing...