Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their second televised debate, Paul Tsongas complained about the Brooke campaign literature that claimed he had not been present for the vote to extend the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment. Tsongas insisted he was there, for two of the final four ballots. "This kind of literature and those kind of statements have no place in politics," Tsongas said, "I'm disappointed when this kind of thing comes out, especially when my literature is all positive." Says Brooke, "I'm not going to attack Paul Tsongas, and I never have and I never will." This is the extent...
...anti-inflation czar until last week, strong-armed coal mine operators last March to accept a highly inflationary contract (39% increases over three years). Carter might have recognized what would happen: every other union leader, just to prove his manhood and keep his job, would strive to equal or top that figure. Blumenthal, Strauss and Carter himself repeatedly, if sometimes vainly, cajoled the Federal Reserve to keep credit easy and hold down interest rates. The President might have known that bankers and businessmen, many of whom considered money policy to have been loose in months past, would interpret this...
...there so few Geraldine Ferraros? Women have definite assets as candidates?for example, voters generally regard them as more honest than men. But a bevy of obstacles keeps women from competing on an equal footing with men for support from party leaders and, more important, from voters. Says Sarah Weddington, Jimmy Carter's new assistant for women's issues: "It is very discouraging to look at the number of women who will be serving in the next Congress...
...explain why blacks have a much higher crime rate than Hispanics, who are usually just as poor and suffer just as much discrimination? In New York City, for instance, a recent study shows that blacks commit four times as many robberies as Hispanics, though their numbers are roughly equal. In the Southwest, the black crime rate runs from two to seven times as high as the Hispanic. It is typical of Silberman's book that he does not mince around this troubling fact...
...only to find that there is nothing heavier than a seltzer bottle or a nightgown being lifted. Despair is, in fact, a light and lavender comedy about a crazed Russian émigré named Hermann Hermann, who watches in amazement as his mind splits like his name, into two equal parts. The film is set in Berlin. Based on a 1936 novel written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, it is hopeless in mood, but most cheerfully so. Nabokov once pointed out in print that the novel is devoid of message, ideas or Freudian "Wiener schnitzel dreams." The despair...