Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Working with him on an equal footing was almost impossible. He would arbitrarily change his mind just for the sake of establishing dominance, and he tended to bully others," Jolly says. "Still, if the drug charge hadn't come up, he probably would have stayed. He would have stayed, and everyone else would have left...
They said statistics showing that killers of white victims are given death sentences far more frequently than killers of Black victims do not establish that the Georgia system violates the Constitution's equal-protection guarantees...
Freshman goaltender Loreen Costa, who got the win in the Crimson's big triumph over Brown last Wednesday, saw clean-up duty in the second half of the Cornell contest. Dermody and Costa apparently are of equal talent, and Coach Carole Kleinfelder has had little reservations about using both netminders...
...might make even Allen blush. Back then, she reports, young men returned from war victorious and well-mannered; the first thing they asked for when they disembarked was milk. Half the earth's races huddled together in picturesque, cheek-by-jowl harmony. The subways, "awful and astonishing in about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered...
Still, New Yorkers weary of the slough of dirt, drugs and despond that is contemporary Manhattan can forgive Morris her borrowed nostalgia. Why, the garbage thrown away in Europe every week wouldn't equal the trash deposited on streets of Manhattan every day. But in those days it really was, in John Cheever's phrase, "a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river light . . . and when almost everybody wore...