Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if they are already using a competing service. MCI Chairman William McGowan, GTE's Theodore Brophy and other AT&T rivals claim that this gives the already dominant company a highly unfair advantage. Last week the Justice Department recommended that the Federal Communications Commission change its so-called equal access rule to give AT&T's competitors a boost...
...Lady Novelists" excoriates authors who mistake "vagueness for depth, bombast for eloquence, and affectation for originality." Even after it becomes known in 1859 that George Eliot is actually a woman, she is never accused of similar foolishness. For the rest of her life she is regarded as the formidable equal of such eminent Victorians as Charles Dickens and Herbert Spencer...
Baldwin was able to take the strain of being a Black writer in a white world precisely because he was not a tiger. He never expected a revolutoin. He knew that no amount of marching in the street or breaking storefront windows was going to complete the process of equal rights. He did not flee America out if some fawning, unconscious love for white European, as Cleaver claimed, but rather because he knew change was not going to come quickly and he didn't want to be destroyed by the disappointment that inevitably followed the hope of the sixties...
...West in developing smaller computers that are used in offices and factories. They have been unable to master the precision manufacturing techniques needed to mass-produce computers. Says Vico Henriques, head of the Washington-based Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association: "The Soviets' capability in computer science is probably equal to ours. Just look at the very sophisticated things they're able to do in space. But from a computer manufacturing standpoint, they are nowhere near...
...under the auspices of Nicaragua's Roman Catholic bishops. The aim of the negotiations would be to restore democracy, end any efforts by the Sandinistas to export their revolution, remove Soviet-bloc and other foreign military personnel from the country, and reduce Nicaragua's military forces to a level equal to those of the country's neighbors. The President's key point: while the talks are going on, Congress must release the $14 million earmarked for the contras but tied up by the legislators. The Administration would use the money only for "food, clothing and medicine and other support...