Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Have a tendency to kidnap young girls? This is not the sort of thing one says in the middle of one's boss's campaign to give $14 million to the contras, only a week after said boss has called the contras "our brothers" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." But it's not the impolitic thing to say if one is using the time-honored leak method to away the course of the boss's policy...
Federal law states clearly that workers in the same job cannot be paid differently because of their sex or race. Comparable worth would take these guarantees of equal pay for equal work a step further: workers in such traditionally male jobs as trucker and accountant, for example, would no longer make 30% to 40% more than holders of traditionally female jobs like secretary and nurse. Commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton and other opponents argue that comparable worth laws would involve the Government in a morass of subjective judgments about salary considerations best left to the free market; Democratic Representative Mary Rose...
Servan-Schreiber argues that the French models selected for the program (a network of inexpensive machines, such as a Thomson, hooked up to larger computers like the Bull Micral) are not Macintosh's equal. Said he: "I personally believe that the best machine is the Macintosh. I am not against French industry. It is just a choice of technology...
...sofa; one hardly speaks. The tale they relate has already reached its resolution, and its outcome is revealed almost immediately. Yet the description of the calculated murder of an escaped convict by a greedy old woman (Kathy Bates) and her submissive husband (Andy Backer) is spellbinding. Credit belongs in equal measure to Playwright Frank Manley and to the brilliant Bates, who reveals a deadly malevolence with matter-of-fact simplicity...
...signatory companies (which employ 80 percent of non whites working for American companies) had fully desegregated their facilities. All signatories have reported paying equal wages for equal work since 1980. As a result, the Black white wage gap has been narrowed considerable in these firms. A 1982 survey of multinational and South African companies revealed that signatory companies have cut the wage differential in unskilled jobs in half...