Word: equal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brzezinski.' But we have done what you might call content analysis of Reagan's statements over the past couple of years, and we feel quite sure that the man speaking was Reagan." To Soviet ears, the President seems not only to be denying the U.S.S.R.'s coveted claim to equal status with the U.S. as a superpower, but even challenging its right to exist as a legitimate state...
...long run, lasting peace has to be based on recognition of the differences between the Soviet system and the system of countries that want to live in peace on the basis of equal rights and responsibilities. This presupposes that the West will not speak a crusading language and that the Soviets will cease to found their policy on the certainty of the collapse of the other system. It further presupposes their willingness to take into account the right of others to security instead of being content to assert their own, and that they modify their methods in places where...
...Japanese man, I am in favor of Japanese women having equal opportunity and responsibility in the office. They would no longer have the excuse of saying, "I have nothing to do with what goes on here because I only do what I am told to do by male workers...
Wendy Wasserstein, whose very name is a deadpan joke on Jewish assimilation into the cheerleader values of Middle America, writes about Jews and Wasps without a tincture of sitcom condescension, finding poignant similarities in perpendicular lives, giving just about every character equal time and a fair number of laughs. Director Gerald Gutierrez has mined the big, handsome virtues in this deceptively modest play, putting a shine on everything from the show tunes and rock standards to the voices on Janie's telephone-answering machine (including the desperate plaints of Meryl Streep, in her best and most hilarious performance...
...pachyderms ("I think they had no pattern/ When they cut out the elephant's skin;/ Some places it needs letting out,/ And others, taking in") to birds ("The song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time to children's resentments and fears, but his best selections feed the youthful sense of wonder expressed by Emily Dickinson's argument for reading poetry aloud: "A word is dead/ When it is said,/ Some say./ I say it just/ Begins to live/ That...