Word: equalizing
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Poverty. Noting that 9 million more Americans slipped under the poverty line between 1979 and 1983, which the Government defined as cash income of $10,178 for a family of four, the letter recommends, among other steps, beefed-up welfare programs and the removal of barriers to full and equal employment for women and minorities. It stresses the importance of a thriving economy to the creation of jobs...
...need a program to tell which players are doing what, but in the theater, most of the information should be accessible in the work itself. But because of the poems' complexity, this does not work for Chinese Cabaret. The imagery of the poems added to the blocking does not equal the total meaning of the piece. Like one of those cubist paintings that is discernable only if you read the title, the work is incomprehensible without the handy notes which explains the context of each song. Warner's intent is too ambitious for his means, though correcting this problem without...
Their political arms-the National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus-are shrewd and tough, and they have their own agenda. They demand passage of the Equal Rights Amendment as the seal of all equality, although it can be argued that the ERA might prove to be of dubious merit for it gives to men equal rights with women, such as the right to resist draft in wartime if women are not drafted, or the right to refuse combat duty if women may refuse. Women's agenda includes, as is long overdue, equal...
...ship due to tie up in a Nicaraguan port was carrying twelve shipping crates of the type used to transport high-performance MiG-21 jet fighters. The Soviets, they reported, last week had already delivered more than half a dozen Hind assault helicopters with night-flying capability and firepower equal to that of the most powerful American gunships. If so, it would mark the first time the Soviets have shipped weapons directly to Nicaragua instead of using Bulgarian and Cuban intermediaries. Such a move would be a direct challenge to clear U.S. warnings that the delivery of sophisticated aircraft would...
...doyen of professional translators, Ralph Manheim, 77, has lived in Paris for 34 years, secure in his grip on the English language, working with equal fluency from the French and the German. In the tiny maid's room that serves as his office, near the Luxembourg Gardens, Manheim has produced inventive English versions of some of Europe's most difficult writers, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Günter Grass. Manheim's most recent endeavor: a canny rendering of The Weight of the World, an elliptical memoir by Austrian Playwright Peter Handke...