Word: equalizing
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...women can abort their children can they "overcome restrictive gender roles and gain the ability to face life with the same options men take for granted." This view assumes that women are biologically inferior because they bear children, that pregnancy and childbearing are a liability, that women can become equal to men only if they nullify their womanhood and become like...
Despite the congressional action, saccharin is expected to continue losing sales to aspartame, an artificial sweetener manufactured by G.D. Searle and sold under the trade names NutraSweet and Equal. Although more expensive than saccharin, aspartame is preferred by many people because it tastes more like sugar. Aspartame sales reached $585 million last year, while saccharin's were estimated at less than $100 million...
These reactions stem from the discovery and authentication of a puzzling 1830 letter that is a much discussed, contentious issue in Mormon circles. The 637-word document contains one of the earliest accounts of Joseph Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon, the scripture that has equal authority with the Bible for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (world membership: 5.4 million...
...before their appearance in federal court, Thayer and Harris, along with a Texas banker, Gayle Schroder, agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle the SEC suit against them--one of the largest settlements in the commission's history. Thayer paid $555,000 of the total, roughly equal to the illegal gains of his friends. "He has made more than full restitution," said Fiske. Although the SEC failed to get Thayer and the others to pay back profits made by more remote beneficiaries who might have got secondhand tips from the inner circle, securities experts say that the case...
Federal law requires that workers in the same job cannot be paid differently because of their sex or race. Comparable worth takes "equal pay for equal work" a long step further, requiring similar pay for jobs of similar value. The problem, and a devilishly difficult one, is to decide which jobs are comparable. In Los Angeles, for instance, stenographers and typists have been paid about 15% less than drivers and warehouse workers. Under the new system painstakingly negotiated by AFSCME and the city, all are considered to be doing comparable work. The agreement, which will cost $12 million in salary...