Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even this may change, since the Pentagon has requested Congress to repeal the ban. The lawmakers are expected to consider the issue next year, and there will undoubtedly be a lively debate. Phyllis Schlafly, leader of the fight against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, has declared that "America is entitled to better protection than women's physical strength can give us." The Pentagon responds that it will take no action that weakens the nation's defenses, and General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is quick...
...pronounced the same way in both cases, and yet the separate standards implicit in each make the comparison almost like that one would make between a fast boat and a fast friend. In a situation like a mixed eight, where men and women are not separate, but not equal either, what standard of "athletic" can apply to the team? Can a mixed eight ever work as a consistent unit, a sort of Sprite "limon" of rowing? Or can it only be understood as a fun Halloween horse costume, which is a unit through the strength of its cloth only...
...Equal Rights Amendment. Carter supported extending the deadline for ratifying the ERA by 39 months and opposed allowing states to rescind previous votes to ratify the amendment. After intense lobbying by women on both sides of the issue, Congress agreed...
Connolly and Christopher Isherwood, watched the rise of Nazism and Fascism in Europe with equal horror and fascination. "This was one of those intervals of history," Spender writes, "in which events make the individual feel that he counts...
Alternative energy is economical in other ways as well, Malarkey said. Savings in heating and lighting expenses will more than equal the costs of installing the equipment, Malarkey said. He estimated that the wood-oil heater will pay for itself in five to eight years, the boiler perhaps in three, and the windmill...