Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superstars of rock music inhabit a looking-glass world made up of equal parts of glamour and innocence-plus roistering, perpetual motion. For this week's cover story, Los Angeles Correspondent Jean Vallely plunged through the looking glass to spend eight nonstop days with Superstar Linda Ronstadt. She trailed the singer from Washington, D.C., to New York City, where she shared her hotel suite, and then back to the West Coast to visit the star on home ground in her Malibu beach house. "Rock stars don't know what the sun looks like," says Vallely, who would stay...
...breaks, which gave an employer the option of taking an extra 2% tax credit on investment in equipment or a 4% credit on the Social Security taxes he pays. The committee reasoned that businesses would not be encouraged to hire enough new people. So it approved a tax credit equal to 40% of the first $4,200 in wages paid to new employees above the average number of workers on the payroll in 1976. A $40,000 ceiling was placed on the amount of tax credits any single firm could claim...
...freedom and the pursuit of happiness, away from the atmosphere of bigotry and domination that plagued Europe in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and obstructed its human experience. Your experiment of building what is now the oldest federal system where human beings and states are equal before the law with no discrimination on the basis of class, national origin, religion and color represents a light that can illuminate the human march toward a better world...
...applicants by describing as "secretarial" a post they contend encompasses all but the highest-level policy decisions concerning minority recruitment and admissions. Peter S. McKinney, acting dean of the GSAS and the individual immediately responsible for the hiring, is currently formulating a reply to the charges, while Phyllis Keller, equal opportunity officer for the Faculty, is undertaking an investigation of the allegations. If the charges turn out to be true, the school's action represents the ultimate act of bad faith, a deplorable violation of both the letter and spirit of affirmative action guidelines...
...currently pushing for a complete vindication through the courts; Laughing Last, therefore, steers clear of extended technical discussions of the Woodstock typewriter and the Pumpkin Papers microfilm, the evidence dear to the scholars of the case, and instead concentrates on the personal side of Alger Hiss and with equal success, on Tony Hiss his son. This is not to suggest Tony Hiss has any doubts about his father's innocence; on the contrary, quite clearly he thinks a great injustice has been done. Rather than dredging up inconsistencies in the trial transcripts or excoriating the witchhunters and their allies...