Word: equalization
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Lately, there has been a trend in America that seems to be shifting this country away from the true ideals of capitalism and democracy, namely that everyone has an equal opportunity to excel, and that this country is run for the people and by the people. The House of Representatives voted last month to curb Medicare spending by $270 billion; welfare cuts and other disagreements between President Clinton and Congress led Tuesday to a government shutdown, sending home 800,000 civil service worker...
...Edwin Drood" two years ago. The jazzy score requires more precision and conviction than most there is very little room for judging in the trills of the mambo and America," and this group, reinforced by angers from the New England Conservatory and the Berklee and Longy Schools, is equal to it the few lapses came in the quieter passages, where the filigree of strings sometimes faltered, especially at the end of the first act. Occasionally problems with the amplification system made some phrases inaudible while others were painfully loud, but this will be remedied we hope...
...places serve good burgers," Hooters Vice President Mike McNeil told a news conference Wednesday. "The Hooters Girls, with their charm and all-American sex appeal, are what our customers come for." Under an Equal Opportunity Commission order to -- gasp -- hire men to work alongside the Hooters girls, McNeil struck back with a Washington news conference-cum-pep rally designed to protest the decision. Fighting for its corporate life as well as the right to burgers served by waitresses in extremely tight tank tops, the company has taken out full-page ads featuring a swarthy man wearing the distinctive Hooters uniforms...
...made it clear that the Hope Hotel was no Versailles or Vienna but a place to do business, pure and simple. The leaders were given identical accommodations-- identical suites furnished with identical desks, identical lampshades and identically colored towels. This arrangement carried the message that the three men enjoyed equal status and that they bore equal responsibility to resolve their differences...
WHEN POP MUSIC AND JAZZ come together, it is seldom on equal footing. More often than not, musicians opt either for the predictable, ingratiating styles of pop (Kenny G.) or for ostentatious, cerebral techniques lifted from jazz (Steely Dan). What they get is slick, one-dimensional music, a bogus hybrid that has all the kick of a wine spritzer...