Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally Miss U.S.A., the first Hispanic and the first foreign-born contestant to win the title, which brings with it $175,000 in cash and prizes, as well as a screen test. This summer she will compete in the Miss Universe contest in Florida. "I feel like an equal combination of Mexican and American. When the Spanish went into Mexico, they went to conquer. But when the immigrants came to the U.S., they came to work together to build a great country. We are all immigrants here. Americans have no limitations. We put limitations on ourselves...
They seem to come from everywhere, for all kinds of reasons, as indeed they always have. "What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America," John F. Kennedy once wrote, "was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers . . ." It was in memory of Kennedy's urging that the U.S. in 1965 abandoned the quota system that for nearly half a century had preserved the overwhelmingly European character of the nation...
Justice Stevens, 65, a sometime private pilot, firmly rejected the contention that the aging process made all flight engineers over 60 a hazard. "Many older American workers perform at levels equal or superior to their younger colleagues," he wrote in an unsubtle rejoinder from a member of the second oldest Supreme Court in history. Said Criswell, who at 66 is still a Western flight engineer: "By ruling unanimously, the court made very clear what it thinks of age discrimination. People constantly tell me, 'We like to see some gray hair in the cockpit...
...Texas, Peter Hill and Arthur Toga. The political purpose of the event was transparent: Conwell read a statement urging President Reagan not to try to rescue the hostages by military means. He also called for the release of the 776 Shi'ite detainees in Israel "who undoubtedly have as equal and as strong a desire to go home as we do." When asked if he felt that he and the other hostages were being held by the same Shi'ite faction as the one the original hijackers belonged to, Conwell replied, "There is an abrupt change of attitude and very...
...sober, asks simply, "What got into me?" The abiding fear for everyone is that nothing got in that was not already there, that people are brimming with cyclones ready to spin into fury. That may be why it is possible to witness a week like the last with equal shocks of incredulity and recognition...