Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University purportedly catering to its graduate students and research-conducting professors. You are not a student conditioned to aloof professors, confusing lectures, competitive classmates, a systematic process of translation-memorization-regurgitation-evacuation. You are a human being too--not just a note and test-taking machine, capable of equal fascination with The Mechanism and potential contribution to the field...
...partners are more than willing to distribute crumbs from their cake. In 1993 everyone on Goldman's staff of 8,000 received a year-end bonus equal to 30% of salary, plus a piece of the firm's $17 million contribution to the employee profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the firm rules say that most of the profits must be reinvested and except in certain dire emergencies cannot be withdrawn until a partner leaves. Even senior partners who make upwards of $20 million draw salaries of well under $300,000. No need to feel too sorry for them though; they...
...must rethink the entire concept of the two-at-maximum parental model. I say, each child gets a number of parents equal to the number of representatives in the United Nations General Assembly at the time of the child's birth. Every child should have at least one parent from each member state. As the General Assembly increases or decreases in size, parents should be added or taken away...
...opposition to male suffrage in RUS is instructive of just how much work there is to be done if we are ever to achieve a gender-equal society. But the fact that the task is daunting should not stop us from taking up the challenge...
...coming down from Boston" clan). Her part is small but spicy: she repeatedly tells her kids to "shut up and celebrate Christmas" while contorting her face into strange fried-egg expressions. A funny mix of maternal and monstrous, Connie is able to balance delicately the separate but equal horrors that consume her life. Her character accurately reveals the modern female condition in all its glorious yet irritated state...