Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission declared that employers may not refuse to hire people with disabilities because of fears that they will raise insurance costs. Establishing its policy for enforcement of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the commission opens the way for disabled workers, including those with AIDS, to sue employers whom they believe have violated...
...took effect, to 890,000 three years later. But the number has climbed back to 1.2 million a year. As a rule of thumb two or three illegals get away for every one who is caught, so aliens from Mexico alone might total 4 million a year -- equal to the population of Philadelphia...
...spare, guitar-centered arrangements, Isaak's compositions convey the aching pang of emotion without ever sounding wimpy. On Beautiful Homes his rich tenor throbs with vulnerability as he sings, "I stare at your window and I cry/ I love you so much/ I love you too much." He brings equal ardor to Two Hearts, a Latin-tinged Valentine levitated by his soaring falsetto, and a stirring remake of Neil Diamond's Solitary Man, which he transforms into an existential anthem for tough-yet-sensitive guys. When Isaak sings, "Me and Sue -- that died too," his voice almost cracks with manly...
...conflict, the movie remakes the world as every person of goodwill wishes it really were. And by making all the conflicts between Sarah and Hal purely cultural and therefore subject to good-humored behavioral modification, the movie implies that everything else dividing us today can be worked out with equal simplicity...
...course, it helps if the picture contains plenty of distracting farce and an equal measure of disarming sentimentality. It helps too if you can partner Goldberg with someone as agreeable and unthreatening as Danson, if you can find a director as comically inventive as Richard Benjamin, and if you can figure out a way to cast Will Smith. He plays Zora's best friend, Tea Cake, and his marvelously freewheeling choral effects -- a muttered aside here, a strangled warning there -- give the movie a waywardness it desperately needs...