Word: equal
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Ortega and Reagan had begun the week on more equal footing. Like two riverboat gamblers, they had each invited the other to a game of poker, then each tried to fix the rules to his own advantage. The first bid came from Reagan. In a speech to members of the Organization of American States, he said that once the Sandinistas have begun "serious negotiations" with the contras, his Administration would "be ready to meet jointly with the foreign ministers of all five Central American nations, including the Sandinistas' representative." The call for "serious" talks was purposefully vague, and one underlying...
...another celebrated case, Kennedy slowed but did not stop the movement to require equal pay for women and men performing jobs believed to be of "comparable worth." The background: a study of Washington State's employees found that pay for jobs filled mostly by women averaged 20% less than wages for different jobs requiring supposedly comparable skills that were held mainly by men. A federal judge held that this constituted illegal sex discrimination and awarded damages estimated as high as $1 billion to female workers...
Take Ruth and Lucille (Sara Walker and Andrea Burchill), the teenagers at the center of this adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's novel. One day in the 1950s their mother carefully deposits them with her hometown relatives in Fingerbone, Idaho. Then, with equal punctiliousness, she pays some boys to give her car a push so that she can sail off a cliff in it. Her suicide is shot in a way that provokes the biggest laugh in Housekeeping, a movie that is not as funny as some Forsyth fans will claim, but sturdy and rich. All the girls' guardians turn...
...Equal numbers of men and women will soon be enrolled at Dartmouth College, if college officials make good on a promise they made last week...
...during their 18-year marriage. But before the "mainstream" could dismiss John Fedders as an aberration, the Maryland Courts stepped in. Late last month, the state rewarded him for his actions--and dampened whatever satisfaction Americans take as members of a society that has progressed in the area of equal rights...