Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later book, The Second Stage, Friedan would call the syndrome suffered by this new generation of women the "I'm not a feminist but" disease. Women expected to be doctors, or CEOs, or astronauts, expected equal wages and compassionate employers, expected reproductive freedom as if that was the way it had always been. They believed that the setbacks they suffered as women were personal, not political...
...trouble within the Woman's Movement was that no issue galvanized feminist activity. The Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified because so few women saw the gains as being immediate or verifiable. Other issues like pornography pitted female civil libertarians against their allies when many argued that the ills of censorship far outweighed any gains...
Logging is only one cause of deforestation, but in Southeast Asia it is an important one. And Japan is the world's largest consumer of tropical timber: in 1986 it imported 15.7 million cubic meters, approximately equal to the imports of the entire European Community. Tokyo has begun to finance programs aimed at replanting trees in Southeast Asia but has not yet tried to limit wood imports...
...overnight ascendancy is equal parts savvy and serendipity. Almost three years ago, Larry Leight, now 38, was looking to open an upscale optical shop in Los Angeles with three partners. No one had any fixed idea about what to stock or what to call the store. Then Leight's brother Dennis got a call from a New York City antiques dealer, inquiring whether the group would be interested in some vintage eyewear. The samples he forwarded were promising: 12-karat gold-filled frames, at least 50 years old and decorated, as Dennis recalls, "with beautiful markings, beautiful filigree...
...Wuer found a more compelling cause in rallying discontented students to demand changes from the Chinese government. It was Wuer who, though wilting from hunger, sat across from Li Peng and chastised him for arriving late to the meeting accorded the protesters. "He talked with Li Peng as an equal," said a Beijing intellectual. His denim jacket and shaggy hair became a familiar sight in Tiananmen, where the charismatic Wuer barked directives from a bullhorn and bantered with demonstrators and journalists alike. Even after other student leaders voted him off the standing committee organizing the protests, in part for advising...