Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that an agreement on intermediate- range (600 miles to 3,400 miles) missiles must do something to redress the disparity in shorter-range launchers, those with a range of 300 miles to 600 miles. The U.S. proposal: freeze the number of Soviet missiles and let the U.S. install an equal amount in Europe...
Howard Stern is an equal-opportunity offender. With his raucous gibes and racy double entendres, he galls black and white, Jew and Gentile, man and woman. You name them, Howard Stern has insulted them. Stern's radio talk show, broadcast in New York City and Philadelphia weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., is perhaps the most scabrous of a genre that has come to be known as raunch radio. The brash, shaggy-haired Stern maintains that he could not care less whom he offends, but last week he offended the one group that could turn off his microphone...
...years such disparities have troubled both liberals concerned about equal justice and conservatives fuming over lenient sentences. To make punishment more uniform, and more certain, Congress in 1984 authorized a commission to devise new sentencing formulas for use in federal courts, where some 40,000 criminal sentences are handed down annually. After 18 months of hearings and study, the U.S. Sentencing Commission last week issued its guidelines. Their tangle of numerical tables may rationalize court penalties, but they are expected to add thousands of inmates to already overflowing prisons...
...added that few schools can meet the standards of financial equilibrium set by Cambridge Associates, which include a balanced budget, and equal annual growth rate for income and expenditures...
...tracks here are those on which pop and punk co-exist as equal partners. "I Don't Wanna" has the most easily discernable melody of any of the songs, carried by lead singer Evan Dando and a nifty bass line. The guitars on "I Don't Wanna" are used more for texture than anything else, and the whole conglomeration reminds you of Moving Targets' approach...