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...kidney-shaped tub for two (price: $2,000), and the Super Spa, a giant whirlpool ($4,000) that can come with a built-in table for those who, for example, want to play poker as they soak. Kohler's masterpiece is the $12,500 Environment, a pleasure chamber that pampers bathers with "tropic rain, jungle steam, chinook winds and Baja sun," all accompanied by soothing stereo music...
...vast disparity between pay rates for the nation's estimated 117,000 white mineworkers and their 700,000 black counterparts (the 1980 average: 1,077 rands a month for whites vs. 169 a month for blacks). Black workers, whose base pay raises are set by the South African Chamber of Mines, can receive a higher raise only at the whim of their employers. Blacks are also victims of a system of "job reservation," under which the highest-paid jobs are reserved for whites...
...voter turnout, approximately 77% of Mexico's 31.6 million registered voters cast ballots. The relatively high level of voter participation is mainly credited to vigorous efforts of all parties to get their supporters to the ballot box. Said Fernando Marina Janet, president of the Mexico City Chamber of Commerce: "By voting, [the people] decided to continue along the democratic path...
...male politicians who endorsed the amendment seldom gave it a high priority. Says Liz Carpenter of ERAmerica: "They spent their credit on other issues." Smeal focuses on the "invisible lobby of business" that profits from sexual discrimination. She notes that no trade association, no businessman's alliance, no Chamber of Commerce and no National Association of Manufacturers was on the roll of ERA supporters. But her strongest condemnation is of the insurance industry. NOW claims that women unfairly pay more than men for health and disability insurance: women have shorter hospital stays than men do and fewer injuries...
...political reforms of 1977 allowed more dissent than in any other Mexican election. Six parties besides the P.R.I, ran presidential candidates, and a total of 100 seats in the country's 400-member Chamber of Deputies were set aside for the opposition. Two weeks ago, some 40,000 supporters of the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico, a left-wing conglomerate that includes Mexico's Communist Party, jammed the huge Zocalo square in front of Mexico City's presidential National Palace...