Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has lifted some campaign restrictions, including a ban on outdoor rallies, and ordered its two television stations to sell equal blocks of time to all parties. According to some Nicaraguans, however, the neighborhood Sandinista defense committees are becoming a problem. In the southern town of San Juan del Sur, "Rodrigo," 27, told TIME that his neighbors have been warned to vote for the Sandinistas or risk losing their food ration cards. "It's not a fear of repression, as in Somoza's times," says Domingo Sanchez Salgado, presidential candidate of the small Socialist party...
...would normally be high this month. Yet many are putting off their purchases in the hope that prices will fall even further. Supplies in the U.S. are low and getting lower. Last month oil imports to the U.S. fell 9.6% from a year earlier. Stockpiles in Western countries equal only 94 days of consumption, the lowest for the month of October since 1979. As soon as oil companies begin topping off their tanks for the winter, prices may snap back. Said a confident Mani Said al-Oteiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates: "It's a matter...
...Dickens' London to today's King's Road, he wants his clothes worn by anyone who likes "playing with clothes, taking from them what interests you, no matter what the origins." In fact, as most store buyers know, a Gaultier collection is made up of about equal parts of eye-grabbing eccentricities and conventional ideas, "classics with different proportions. A young person won't put them together the same way as a 50-or 60-year...
Curiously, Talbott opens himself to such criticism by occasionally treating the Soviets with equal disdain. In his Prologue he comments on a quote by Yuri Andropos in January...
...debate to force the League to expand beyond its usual slate of about twelve potential participants. For the exchange between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale, however, 83 journalists were considered and only three were acceptable to the campaigns and also willing to appear. Each side knocked out about an equal number. Said Ridings: "There was abuse of the process by both campaigns. The letter of the agreement was lived up to, but the spirit...