Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapons are so swollen that striking a bargain is all but impossible. It would have been far simpler to negotiate nuclear arms control in the early 1950s, when the technology was primitive and the arsenals dinky, or in the early 1960s, before ICBMs had proliferated. Similarly, it would be easier to bargain and control space weapons right away than a decade hence, after deployment has begun...
TRUCKING. Since passage in 1980 of legislation that made it easier to get into the trucking business, the number of interstate carriers has jumped 70%, to 30,717. Because of the new competition, the average price of shipping a truckload of freight is 25% to 30% lower than it was four years ago. The price squeeze has been tough on unionized carriers, which have laid off one-third of the Teamsters members employed in the industry. Meanwhile, low-cost nonunion trucking operations are mushrooming. Overnite Transportation, a nonunion company based in Richmond, has expanded its network from 21 states...
...dedicated to "the education and training of young men and women, irrespective of color." But Tennessee's segregation laws ensured that whites went to other colleges, leaving Fisk with little financial support for its student body of freed slaves. Over the years, the money problems have hardly become easier: Fisk's present endowment is a mere $3.1 million, in contrast with about $250 million for its rich neighbor, Vanderbilt University. Even so, Fisk has built a distinguished record. It was the first black college to be endorsed by the Association of American Universities, and its alumni include Philosopher...
...Harvard fosters, given that there is no union to represent staff members as a whole, and given perhaps substantial differences in socioeconomic class and self-perceptions between students and staff? Uniting people is hard but not impossible, since, as Walter's lawyer Holly Ladd puts it, "It may be easier for women to get together--there is a feeling of commonality. The same shit happens to women anytime, no matter what age or class. Sexual harassment is primarily a women's issue...
...that are triggered every time state prisons become overcrowded: the parole eligibility dates of offenders convicted of nonviolent crimes are then brought forward by between 30 to 90 days, allowing officials to release enough inmates to bring the population down. Patterned on a 1980 Michigan statute, the laws are easier for legislators to accept because they affect only the tail end of a prisoner's sentence. Michigan's law has been invoked six times, resulting in the early release of about 2,000 inmates. But it cannot be used too often. "It's becoming increasingly less effective...