Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote is that it unavoidably discriminates against poor women seeking abortions, without placing the same restriction on those who can afford them. No one can deny that this goes against traditional concepts of justice and equity; nonetheless, this is an extraordinary situation, where larger considerations must apply. The equal right to do what is grossly wrong is not legally or morally guaranteed to anyone. We must agree when the state does what it can to limit any such violations of basic human dignity...
...reporter asks for her vital statistics, she looks him square in the eye and says, "I don't know. I don't even know how much I weigh." But she slips into the word "girls" when lapsing into pageant talk. And she will not comment on the Equal Rights Amendment because, she says, she does not feel well enough informed...
...largest industrial companies; General Motors, IBM and Ford are the only U.S. non-oil firms in their class. In size, the Sisters easily match many of the nations they deal with. Exxon's assets ($38 billion) and Shell's sales ($39 billion last year) are about equal to the Italian national budget...
...addition, Mobil has strengthened its position as an oil and gas producer with major interests in the North Sea and Alaska, and has had incredible luck in the Gulf of Mexico. Last year it sank 28 wildcat wells there and struck oil in 14, a feat about equal to a baseball player hitting .425. Mobil has the most important nonenergy businesses of all the Seven; in 1976 it completed a 100% takeover of Marcor, parent of Container Corp. of America and Montgomery Ward. Last year these subsidiaries earned $175 million, or 17.5% of Mobil's profits...
Talk about strange bedfellows. There were Feminists Valerie Harper, Jean Stapleton and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke clustered around their hosts, Hugh Hefner and his daughter Christie, who were throwing a $100-a-plate dinner in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Reasoned the president of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.: "Playboy is clearly a major factor in the sexual revolution. And clearly the social-sexual revolution is related to the women's movement." Nor were the feminists shy about accepting Hef's hospitality. Said Burke: "The people we have to get to support ERA are some of Hefner's constituents...