Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...target everyone can hate with equal passion is the legal system that placed two families and a child on the rack for 2 1/2 years. Even if the DeBoers, having fallen in love with the baby, could not give up without a fight, their legal help could have advised differently. The DeBoers should have relinquished Jessica immediately, argues Beverly Hills lawyer David Leavitt, one of the country's pre-eminent adoption lawyers: "Any good adoption lawyer understands that if a birth mother changes her mind within a few weeks, and you resist, you're in for terrible grief...
...Tokyo meeting of the leaders of the seven major industrial democracies, Bill Clinton acted the parts of statesman and campaigner in equal measure. While the Japanese indulged a fascination with his wife Hillary, Clinton courted a younger generation of Japanese politicians. In public appearances he urged the Japanese to open their markets -- a tactic that helped him cast the summit for his public back home as one more part of his jobs program. The meeting started on a promising and surprising note: an agreement in principle by trade ministers to cut anti-import tariffs on hundreds of items (although...
Imagine that you're watching a commercial on television. It's one of those touchy-feely public service messages, something about equal opportunity. So there's some sort of teacher, talking to little kids at school. "What do you want to do when you grow up?" she asks. The best answer is, "I wanna be an astronaut...
...this leads to a second suggestion: make domestic service more like < capitalism and less like feudalism. The relationship between customer and supplier is inherently more equal than that between employer and servant. There is no squeamishness involved in taking your clothes to the dry cleaner. If domestic service were generally provided by business firms (ideally, co-ops of the workers themselves) with all the trappings of a business relationship (monthly bills instead of cash on the kitchen table, etc.), the arrangement would be more dignified for both parties. It would also provide household workers some of the benefits -- such...
Bozzotto said yesterday that he disagreed with Hicks on the charge of discrimination, but said he believed Harvard managers had been "lazy" in making sure overtime assignments were equal...