Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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September is a time when all teams stand equal with 0-0 marks, when all coaches hold equally great expectations for the future--in this case, for the future of the Class...
What caused the sell-off? Long-simmering worries about the health of the American economy, in the view of many experts, simply boiled over. A $200 billion budget deficit, says Brian Smith, a newsletter publisher in Alexandria, Va., would be roughly equal to the profits of all U.S. corporations, and nothing seems to make the deficit shrink. Said Albert O. Nicholas, president of the $1 billion Nicholas Fund in Milwaukee: "The economy isn't all that robust, and companies aren't coming up with the earning increases or even maintaining the earnings to support the stock-market euphoria that came...
...Senate, Democrats led by Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden reviewed Rehnquist's opposition to desegregation and cited a newly discovered memorandum the Justice wrote in 1970 opposing the Equal Rights Amendment. But only about 30 Senators are committed to blocking the nomination, with several more wavering. Said a Biden aide: "That doesn...
Management at Loews has always been a family affair. Larry is the master strategist and financier, usually tucked away in his plainly furnished corner office at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, his head permanently cocked toward his Quotron terminal. Bob, 60, an equal partner, a gregarious man with an exceptional command of details, has been the hands-on operator. The unusual alliance has not been broken in 40 years. "We have never had an argument," Larry Tisch claims. "There's no reason to show temper. I don't get mad." When Bob became Postmaster General last month, the partnership...
...amiable. The rebels denounced Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, a Marcos regime holdover who makes no secret of his distrust of the Communists, for revealing "distorted versions of our proposals." Enrile has publicly stated that the Communist negotiators are demanding what amounts to the status of a separate and equal government in the discussions, claiming the right to represent the Filipino people in the talks. The rebels deny making such demands. In any case, most observers do not foresee the talks with the Communists leading to a quick settlement. Says one foreign diplomat in Manila: "Aquino will become more hardheaded...