Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading U .S. authorities on the present state of Soviet computers is Dr. Carl Hammer, director of computer sciences at Sperry Univac. Hammer, who often visits Russian cybernetic installations, believes the U.S.S.R. is nearly equal to the U.S. in the design and construction of computers. But it lags so badly in performance because of the Soviet failure so far to master "chip" technology-the ability to place large numbers of miniature circuits on tiny (usually ½ sq. in.) silicon chips or plates. While U.S. engineers can cram 10,000 to 50,000 components on one of these chips, the Russians...
...very least, not to compound it. The judicial system is meant to mediate, to knock the chaos of human behavior into a manageable pattern. The goal of fairness underlies American education, which has been regarded, sometimes more hopefully than accurately, as the way to give everyone an equal chance. Medicaid was meant to provide fairness in health care, so that if a poor man needs an $800 appendectomy or a $15,000 coronary bypass, he will, in theory, receive something like the same treatment as a character who arrives at the hospital by grossen Mercedes...
Comments like these have irritated some campus feminists, who fear sociobiologists are telling them to stay home and mind the babies, but Sociobiologists have some calming news: hunter-gatherer women were economic equals. Says DeVore: "The female is an absolutely integral part of the society, because only her gathering makes it possible for the male to indulge in the gamble of the hunt." Sociobiologists stress that the sexes are genetically equal and can evolve different strategies as conditions change...
...workers by Jan. 1. 1980-or to an estimated $3.15 an hour. This represents a considerable Carter compromise. Originally, the White House proposed an initial increase to $2.50 an hour, with future increases pegged to 50% of the manufacturing wage: labor wanted a boost to $3. with an escalator equal to 60% of the manufacturing wage...
Died. Alice Paul, 92, longtime crusader for women's rights and shaper of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution; in Moorestown, N.J. After successfully lobbying for the adoption of the Woman Suffrage Amendment-she was thrown into jail in 1917 for leading a parade of bloomer-clad suffragists in front of the White House-Paul in 1923 helped draft a prototype of the current Equal Rights Amendment and spent more than 50 years pressing for its ratification...