Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not mind seeing a bit of skin to refresh my poor tired eyes from the heaviness of daily news. But I'd prefer to see some male skin, male string bikinis. How about some equal time...
Begin has already impressed Israelis-including many who were appalled by his victory-with his chivalrous public demeanor. He has effusively lauded the outgoing Rabin for his service to the country. Begin has kept on-most of Rabin's aides and generally treated them as equal coworkers. One aide accustomed to Rabin's brusque hellos still cannot get over the fact that when he arrives in the office every morning, the early-rising Begin gets up from his desk, walks over and greets him with a handshake. Says the aide: "I've been tempted to tell...
...Faction. Senegal's Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, proposed that all black nationalist leaders be given equal OAU endorsement. But other delegates were influenced by Kaunda, whose backing of the Patriotic Front was a dramatic switch from his previous backing of all Rhodesian black nationalist movements. The Zambian leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only...
Vast Reserves. Yet in a world menaced by the specter of energy shortages, Saudi Arabia possesses one source of power that far outweighs all its drawbacks: a pool of oil so vast that it may almost equal the combined reserves of the Western Hemisphere and the Soviet Union. According to one current study, whether the world starts running short of oil to power its machinery as early as 1981 or considerably later in the century depends primarily on how rapidly the Saudis choose to pump out their crude. And high prices for the petroleum have given the Saudis an enormous...
Luscomb believes that everybody has the same responsibility for the welfare of human society and that, even as women campaign for absolute equality, they must fight with equal vigor against discrimination of any kind, racial or national. This kind of "all the human race are one" outlook on life seems as overly optimistic and simplistic as a Sunday-school teacher convinced of the essential benevolence of man despite the evidence to the contrary vocally presented by her obstreperous charges. And yet Luscomb's idealism is linked to unshakeable political beliefs. One might find fault with her world political analysis (Russia...