Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...individuals were named in last week's charges or identified by the company, even though the Hutton branch managers benefited because they were given bonuses equal to 10% of their branch profits. That immediately raised charges of Justice Department favoritism toward Big Business. Meese lamely attempted to explain his decision not to go after any Hutton employees, saying it was necessary to give immunity "to push the investigation along." He added, "It didn't seem fair to subsequently charge other individuals for doing identical acts...
...were determined to keep the wreath laying there as low-key as possible. They succeeded. Air Force One carried the two leaders into a U.S. air base on the outskirts of Bitburg, a pleasant town in the Eifel hills where 11,000 Americans live in friendship with a roughly equal number of Germans. A motorcade took them through open country, then into a residential area and to the small cemetery. There the flat markers, arranged in 32 rows, had been polished for the visit, and flowers were placed at each stone...
Inevitably, the U.S., boasting an output of goods and services about equal to that of the other six powers combined, determines the tone and much of the agenda. Its line has switched markedly with the identity of the man occupying the Oval Office. Jimmy Carter sought fairly close coordination of national policies amounting almost to a master plan for the world economy. Reagan during his first term preached reliance on the free market to promote global prosperity, and devoted much energy to denying that gargantuan U.S. budget deficits were damaging the world economy by keeping interest rates high and forcing...
...Burcham's death has shown, one of the most vexing problems in implant patients is bleeding. The loss of blood is especially hard to manage, DeVries noted, because patients face the equal and opposite threat of too much clotting. (Blood clots forming in the vicinity of the artificial heart are suspected of having caused Schroeder's strokes.) Said DeVries: "The tightrope that we walk between over- and undercoagulation will have to be examined again a little closer...
After numerous delays in filing suit at the state level. Jackson transfered her complaint to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which granted "the right to sue" last October...