Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act seems to prohibit special benefits to either sex. Friedan, who has drawn most of the heat in a fairly calm debate, surprised many feminists by repudiating the equal-rights stance that the women's movement has taken for years. "The time has come to acknowledge that women are different from men," she says. "There has to be a concept of equality that takes into account that women are the ones who have the babies...
Gang violence has ebbed in Jackson since Charles Triplett was killed, but the calm may prove short-lived. "It will stay quiet until somebody else messes up," said "Cheeseburger," an 18-year-old member of a gang called the Folks. "You know, school starts back. Somebody will bring up Chuck (Triplett), and it's gonna start up." Charles Robinson, director of the Jackson Urban League, first warned city officials about the gang situation more than two years ago, hoping it could be dealt with early. "Right now, they're fighting for turf," he explained. "Once that's settled, they...
...With age comes wisdom but also occasionally paranoia. Perhaps 69-year-old Wyeth felt that if he never said a word about the paintings while he was still alive, they would be misunderstood. Perhaps our castigation of the artist for his mute revelation is too harsh and premature. The calm and gentleness of his hidden secrets excuses almost anything...
...Lugar began work on the plan he will present to the Senate committee this week, he was considering adding sanctions on new investments by U.S. companies in South Africa and a ban on imports from South Africa's state-owned steel and coal industries. If he seems calm about the policy storm looming, it may be because he is confident that his plan will receive serious attention. Says Lugar in a deceptively mild tone: "I'm not the kind of person who is easily rebuffed...
...minute speech, given not in the glare of prime time but to at afternoon gathering of foreign-policy groups, offered nothing new in the way of putting pressure on the intransigent Afrikaner-led South African government. Although it was meant to calm the debate over sanctions, it brought the issue to such a head that by week's end Reagan's aides were scurrying to hint that his policy could change. The Senate, led by rebellious Republicans, proceeded to draw up a bill to apply further sanctions. Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop-elect of South Africa, called the speech "nauseating...