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Word: equal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only one. Taylor as the Queen is an equal match to Isaacs riveting performance. Where Isaacs slinks, Taylor jiggles. He fusses shrilly over Kitty Litter and conquers his hostility towards men with an alacrity that would have made Freud proud. Some where in the process, his lesson to Kitty on the Facts of Life and how to with stand them brings down the house...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Belleboys in Love | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

...figure for women is 55%. Among Republicans, Reagan is just as popular with women as with men (87%), but there is a gap of 16 points (52% vs. 36%) between Democratic men and women. When asked their objections to Reagan, more women (53%) give his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment than any other reason. Fear that he will lead the country into war comes second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Runner Is Striding Out | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel puffs of nitrogen gas. When McCandless fired jets on one side of the MMU, they provided a textbook example of Newton's third law ("For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"): the astronaut was propelled the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Orbiting with Flash and Buck | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...books, which were translated from Arabic and Farsi as the creed spread. The Old Testament messianic predictions and New Testament passages on Christ's second coming are seen as references to Baha'u'llah. In contrast to Islam, the Baha'i faith believes in equal treatment for men and women and teaches that modern science is compatible with true religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Slow Death for Iran's Baha'is | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

From her mischievous and misleading title to her topsy-turvy feminism - "I say women are as innately evil and grasping or selfish as men and fully as criminal. They have a right to equal suspicion," says one malefactress - Cornelisen shares both the conspirators' secrets and their seditious high spirits. But she refuses to let them get away clean. After the caper, the culprits are unsettled not by their guilt or greed but, more fittingly, by their insouciance and sprightly intelligence. And in the end they begin to suspect that inefficiency may, after all, be Italy's greatest charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malefactress | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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