Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the new year, Jungles said, faculty doing the same work will be assured equal pay. He added that previously there have been large inequities in faculty wages, with women among those on the lower end of the pay scale. Yesterday's agreement provides for a 7-per-cent pay raise for all faculty next year...
Despite the basic agreement on wages, the negotiators were unable to settle other critical issues, chiefly whether cost of living increases would be paid annually or semiannually. The truckers had agreed to an annual raise equal to 65% of the rise in the Consumer Price Index. The union wants semi-annual increases, which could add a few percentage points to the overall cost of the contract...
...citizens of the country; men and women should have equal rights, and with those rights come equal reponsibilities...
...better off than a woman in most other Middle Eastern countries. But Iran is still a deeply patriarchal society, in which a woman is seen as needing protection and separation from predatory males, her greatest purpose in life to provide her husband with a son. Under Islam, women are equal, in theory. In practice they are not. They are often literally excluded from men's society...
...Coppertone, they generally settle for dinner and dreams. For the indefatigable, however, there is nightlife on Maui. There are waiting lines outside the Lost Horizon disco at the Wailea Beach Hotel; the Royal Lahaina's Foxy Lady packs in upper teenagers and the Tommy Dorsey set in equal numbers. The island's hottest spot is the Bluemax, in the town of Lahaina, where visiting Elton John and Linda Ronstadt have done their stuff off the cuff; the place is packed nightly in hopes that other drop-in stars may relieve the resident combo...