Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once the national women's movement gathered steam, the Radcliffe Class of 1961 joined the bandwagon. Fully 81 percent of the alumnae who responded to a recent 25th reunion poll said that the attempt to pass an Equal Rights Amendment and the women's movement had affected them personally...
...popular imagination, cocaine has long had an almost glamorous aura about it: the champagne of drugs, a high for the upwardly mobile who use rolled-up $100 bills to snort lines of expensive white powder. Crack, by comparison, is so inexpensive that it is proving to be an equal- opportunity narcotic, one that does not discriminate among its victims...
...Western Europe's defense. The disaster has increased doubts about anything having to do with atomic technology; this threatens to create more rifts between the U.S. and its European allies, particularly about the installation of nuclear weapons. Says a senior West German official: "The political scale of Chernobyl is equal to the force of the accident itself. We know that people equate the threat of nuclear accidents with the disastrous potential of nuclear weapons...
...confused about what to say or do" the first and most basic thing that needs to be addressed is this person, his pain or anger, her confusion or bewilderment. The church's teaching on this is clear: people with homosexual or heterosexual orientations are persons with an equal God-given dignity. Persons who deserve respect and understanding, honesty and insight. What does this mean concretely...
...work in front of journalists from all over the world." These, however, are not the best of times for any design that makes demands on the initiative and imagination of the wearer. "It may sound a bit harsh," says Yohji Yamamoto, "but Europe's snobbishness is equal to America's conservatism. To people living in a conservative world, new fashions, new trends and new designs are like something you see in the theater: you clap, but you never live what...