Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the presence of mind to reflect that Karen's "Thirteen" (the floor number) was uttered more in the style of a hierarchical demand than a request from an equal? Did no one conceive of the presumptuousness of speaking that way to anyone, regardless of color or gender? Did no one even notice the absence of so basic a courtesy as "please"--or blush for the tone of despotic privilege that omission almost invariably conveys...
...impact of defense cutbacks is amplified as it ripples through the communities where plants and bases are located. Pentagon economists estimate that each dollar spent in contracts triggers $1.60 of spending in the local economy. Reductions have a roughly equal and opposite effect. On Long Island, for example, defense contractors have cut their work force of 60,000 by more than one-fifth since 1987. As a result, an estimated 26,000 other local workers, from pizza-parlor employees to department-store clerks, have lost their jobs...
Bonang said one of his primary goals was to provide all sports with equal effort and publicity...
Ladd, a former Bunting fellow who has published several papers on race relations and equal opportunity, will take over as head of Radcliffe's multidisciplinary research center for women in the fall...
Ladd has worked at both the Graduate School of Design and the School of Education. She has published several papers on equal opportunity in housing, Blacks in the United States and opportunities for South Africans and American minority groups in higher education...