Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renewed interest in Islam is most pronounced among the young. A prominent judge in Algiers is surprised to discover that five times a day his 14-year-old son joins a group of friends at a mosque for prayer. In Tunisia, whose President Habib Bourguiba has promoted equal rights for women, including divorce and abortion, students belonging to the militant Muslim Brothers wage war on "sin and evil" by painting over sexually suggestive cinema billboards and chalking quotations from the Koran on city walls. At Cairo University (enrollment: 130,000), hundreds of female Egyptian students have donned the veil...
...slice through the bureaucratic barriers that have bogged down plans by Standard Oil of Ohio for a pipeline to carry Alaskan oil from California to Texas. The pipeline would enable some 350,000 bbl. per day of Alaskan oil to reach Eastern markets, thereby displacing the need for an equal amount of imports...
...given year, the expenditures by the big oil companies in search of increased energy supplies may match or exceed profits. For example, the amount that Mobil spent last year to look for and develop new sources of gas and oil, $1.1 billion, was exactly equal to its after-tax earnings. The $3.5 billion that Exxon spent on developing new energy sources was well above its after-tax profits, which came to $2.7 billion. Of that sum, Exxon paid out about 55% in dividends to its 695,000 stockholders. They include not only a great number of small investors (no single...
...main sticking point is the cost of living clause. The industry has offered the drivers a boost equal to 65% of the rise in the Consumer Price Index, to be paid on an annual basis. The final payment would not be made until the fourth year and would not be counted in the three-year package. The union insists on getting the increase twice a year, with the next-to-final payment falling due in the third year. That would lift the overall settlement two percentage points above what the Government is willing to accept...
...effect of race has taken a new twist: killing a white is more likely to bring the death penalty than killing a black. In Alabama, for instance, on the basis of 1,395 murders and 41 death sentences, it is twelve times more likely. Even though roughly equal numbers of blacks and whites were killed in Georgia, Texas and Florida from 1973 to 1977, 90% of the convicts on death row got there by killing whites, according to a study by Sociologists William Bowers and Glenn Pierce of Northeastern University...