Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gauge of last week's preconvention maneuverings, the rallying cry of the present is "Rightward ho!" The conservative wing of the party prevailed on virtually all of the relatively few platform contests, including a call to appoint only opponents of abortion to the federal bench, a rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment and support of voluntary school prayer. Gloated North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, who fought unsuccessfully for conservative stands at previous G.O.P. conventions: "Tom Sawyer found someone else to paint the fence...
...Among those on the advisory board for the study: Peter Peterson, former chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb; Herbert Stein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon; Economist Robert Solow of M.I.T.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Carter Administration...
...platform diving in 1948 and '52, and who coached Louganis from '74 to '77, says, "I have been around diving for 50 years, and no one I have seen, past or present, or whom I see coming up in the future, will equal Greg's performance." Tan Liangde, the flashingly acrobatic 19-year-old Chinese who came in second to Louganis in the Olympic springboard competition last week, laughed aloud at the silliness of the question when someone asked him whether the American could be beaten. "No," he said, and then added, no doubt with some...
...plucks all the right chords: God, church, family values and freedom. But there are some practical problems with the new "equal access" bill, which handily passed the Senate, 88 to 11, whisked through the House, 337 to 77, and is expected to be signed this week by President Reagan...
...very tall, haunted-looking fellow whose nickname is the Albatross, and he soared above everyone else on air currents only he was able to find. He is 6 ft. 7½ in. tall and so thin he looks frail. His arm span, which on average should equal roughly his height, is an astonishing 7 ft. 4 in. He is the only male swimmer since Mark Spitz to hold world records in two strokes at the same time, and the combination of his success and his unusual architecture has swimming experts muttering in awe. His close-set eyes and long, beaked...