Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feminism has become a dirty word. Sure, we all support equal rights, but no need to be feminist about it. Images of castration and folk singers, not to mention hairy legs, lesbianism, hairy armpits, man-hating, facial hair, pantsuits and pushiness, are routinely associated with feminism in conversation and comic strips...
...Clark trustees set May 31, 1987, and June 30, 1988, as target dates for selling stock, depending on the degree companies adhere to the Sullivan Principles in trying to promote equal hiring of blacks in South Africa, said Alicia Ianiere, assistant communications director...
...week, New Hampshire Republican Warren Rudman, one of the Senate sponsors of the bill, explained why. To meet the law's deficit targets ($144 billion for fiscal 1987, which begins Oct. 1, vs. an expected $202.8 billion this fiscal year), Congress by Aug. 15 would still have to calculate equal percentage cuts in the 50% or so of all federal spending that is not exempt. If a Supreme Court decision prevents those cuts from being put into effect automatically, they would have to be embodied in a joint resolution brought up for a straight yes-or-no vote within...
...officials said that they have improved services for tenants. A new policy, begun this year, allows renters to mail in housing applications. In the past, all applications had to be submitted in person. "It will allow people outside Cambridge to have an equal crack at housing," Kossan...
...shows avoided not only Gospel appeals but personalities, a necessity on an entertainment-oriented medium. The only galvanizing religious figure to emerge in weekly prime time, Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen, was sponsored by the Admiral Corp., not by his church. Another factor: the Federal Communications Commission decided to give equal "public service" credit to paid religion and free-time shows. Stations were eager to sell time and increase profits, and the Evangelicals were ready. Their 40 years in the paid-time wilderness turned out to be a boon. Additional UHF and cable outlets became available to them. Videotaping facilitated cheap...