Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Americans have given their children such striking and fanciful sobriquets as Independence Jones, Liberty Smith and Prohibition Anderson. Last week Judy McCartney, from Phoenix, Ariz., arrived in Washington to lobby in support of her favorite political cause, and with her she brought her daughter, a cherubic infant named Equal Rights Amendment McCartney...
...left. Looking relaxed and confident, he extended an open hand. "I am addressing myself to those who voted for the opposition; it was your right. But you should know that for the President of the republic, those who voted Socialist or Communist are as French as anyone else-equal members of a national community." Deploring the "excessive division of the country," he pledged to bring leftists "on the sidelines" into active participation in the government. In a Gallic turn of phrase that may prove historic, Giscard declared: "It is time to achieve what I might call reasonable cohabitation...
Surgery advocates argue that the benefits to the economy from those who return to work are at least equal to the $ 1 billion costs of surgery. That is, admittedly, a top-of-the-head estimate. But Harvard's Dr. John J. Collins Jr. presented some convincing figures from one group of 100 patients who had had bypass surgery. According to Collins, these patients, who before surgery frequently required hospitalization, spent so much less time in hospitals after bypass operations that the saving over a period of about 4½ years equaled the cost of the surgery...
...live in the same frame house. Kids frequently descend on the place now, and the elder Travoltas pass out glossies of their youngest son. Down in the bright red basement recreation room, there is a large bulletin board crowded with pictures of all the kids. Here the superstar receives equal billing with his siblings, and his picture smiles out among shots of Ellen, now 37, who is acting in pilots for both NBC and CBS; Margaret, 32, who does TV and voice-overs in Chicago; Anne, 29, just married and acting in New York City; Joey, 27, who was once...
...Lina Wertmuller's The End of the World in Our Usual Bed, etc. Off camera, too, she has become a feminist. To prove it, Bergen, 31, joined Gloria Steinem and other members of the National Women's Political Caucus last week at a fund raiser for the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA, she told the audience, assures women in the U.S. "only the fundamental human rights." As for Italian women: "They've [just] gone from basic black to blue jeans and marching, from the Middle Ages to future shock. Italian men are in shock...