Word: equalize
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Tonight's meeting is filled with characters. A young earth mother carrying her newborn in a hip sling hands out oatmeal cookies; moments later, a bunch of yahoos heckles the moderator, asking for equal time. Observing from the sidelines is Dave Hill, vice president of the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, representing powerful logging interests like Boise Cascade, which hopes to derail the monument. "We'd just like to narrow the area to the significant features that warrant monument designation," says Hill. Contrasting sharply with both the big-money forestry firms and the well-organized Greens, a ragtag crew...
...term rate is the one bankers use to peg what they pay depositors - the lower the better. Longer-term rates, like the ones on 10-year bonds, are the ones they use to charge borrowers. The lower Greenspan goes, the bigger the spread between the two - all else being equal - and the more the banks profit...
...delicate matter of whether Cheney is still equal to the rigors of being Bush's man-for-all-portfolios, Reiner said he told Cheney the device shouldn't interfere with his ability to do his job. Cheney had addressed the issue at a press conference the day before. "I don't have any interest in continuing in the post unless I'm able to perform adequately," he told reporters. "And the doctors have assured me that is the case...
...Roberts was a star. Now, at age 33, with an Oscar and a recent string of hits that includes the summer of '99 doubleheader Notting Hill and Runaway Bride, Roberts is flying higher than any full-grown actress (yes, we are aware of Shirley Temple) in history--a salary equal to her male peers and the ability to get behinds the world over into seats on opening weekends...
...only modification is that he elevates in importance the questions of globalization and “Peace and Justice” by granting them space equal to one of the other spheres...