Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cumbersome socialist state and once again invited foreign investment. But the response has not even been as loud as a whisper. Last year, in order to pay off short-term debts, more capital flowed out of the country than into it. The balance of trade deficit is now equal to a fifth of the gross national product ($13.7 billion a year). This is something close to an economic impossibility, and Egypt is technically bankrupt. It is kept alive only by massive handouts and loans from abroad, mostly from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait...
...have been advocating for a long time. But this peace must come soon. With astonishing rapidity, Israelis develop emotional and historical attachments to land they originally took for temporary security. Arabs, while remembering the glorious victories of past centuries, forget the devastating defeats of recent years with equal speed. Bruce Hardcastle Washington...
...among liberals, the strikers have many sympathizers. Gay rights groups say they have persuaded 100 bars in San Francisco to stop selling Coors. In Los Angeles, feminists have joined the boycott to protest the polygraph exams and Joseph Coors' backing of Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of the anti-Equal Rights Amendment forces. The Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women has asked ERA supporters to bring aluminum cans to a Coors recycling center and demand that the company pay for them with checks made out to the local pro-ERA campaign. Chicano boycotters accuse Coors of racial...
...edition of the dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...this," he says, stabbing furiously at a keyboard. He is 26 moves into a grim queen's gambit saber duel with Chess Challenger, a $275 computerized overachiever built by Fidelity Electronics, Ltd. The machine is playing at the highest of its three levels, claimed in some ads to equal 1650, the rating of an average club player (the estimate is too generous). It has occurred to the father that it could be a great improvement, in the interest of strict fairness, if the computer had an aperture down which martinis could be poured. The valiant human attacker has such...