Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shouting slogans such as "Reach out, reach out and kill someone....Join the CIA" and "Join the CIA, they're equal opportunity murderers," Cornell student protesters forced a CIA recruiter to close down his booth during a Career Fair at the Ithaca, N. Y. school...
...Jonathan and Judith, House would be an update of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. But as he demonstrated in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), his Pulitzer-prizewinni ng book on the computer industry, the author is a virtuoso of lucid and compelling narrative. Here he gives equal time to client, architect and builders. The result is a three- dimensional view of an activity instinctive to the species, and a subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance man in delirium": political science at Yale...
...crew by swinging her own hammer. That the firm does not make much money on the Souweine job suggests how hard it is to get rich in the construction business. Still, the Corps is a young outfit that needs the work. Jim, Ned, Alex and Richard are equal partners on an honor system that requires each to dock his pay if he does not think he has done his share. They allot themselves $14 an hour and split whatever profit is left over at the end of the project. In this case it amounts to only...
...with the IMF, the Latin countries were struggling to reduce inflationary government spending and curb expensive imports. Even Argentina ($50 billion), which last year took a defiant stance toward its creditors, successfully froze wages and prices last summer and issued a new unit of currency, the austral, which is equal to 100 old pesos. As a result, Argentine consumer prices rose only 2% last month, compared with a 30% rise in June...
...around the Department of Agriculture. What pikers! They have only 240 million bushels of surplus corn stored away. A nod down Independence Avenue to NASA. It would take one of their space shuttles nearly a year and a half in orbit reeling out end-to-end dollar bills to equal the current Debt...