Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abrasive personalities was one thing; conviction was another. Bombeck knew which side she was on. Her success had allowed the Bombecks to move to Phoenix. But in 1978 she gave up her $15,000-a-shot lecturing sideline and began a two-year stump tour in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment. She hit senior citizens' centers, parking lots and Laundromats. Some of her fans wanted to hear her jokes but not her political views. The Lieutenant Governor of one Southern state patted her on the head and said she should be home having babies. "My babies were...
Steel manufacturers want to limit imports to no more than 15% of the American market, about 60% of the current level. Copper companies are urging the Government to restrict imports for five years to a level equal to about two-thirds of last year's shipments...
...payoff for a lifetime hitch is $400, not to the dog but to its owner. The Government does not, of course, discriminate between males and females, but equal-opportunity laws are bypassed when it comes to breeding; recruitment is limited to such watchful species as German shepherds and Rottweilers. The "military working dogs" are shipped to Texas for basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, where they learn obedience, mauling, snarling, sniffing and other suitable skills. In the new armed forces, the routine is hardly a dog's life. An animal psychologist is on hand if basic training becomes...
...must serve all of the people and not just a select few. When we make politics a crusade, we can put a stop to this insane, suicidal nuclear arms race which is destroying our economy and terrifying our children. When we make politics a crusade, we can make the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution the law of the land. We can elect a new generation of political leaders committed to creating a society free from race and sex discrimination...
...over their secular incomes, live in communities and take all the course work needed to be priests, although few are ordained. "Associates" (20%) are celibate but do not live in communities or do advanced theological study. "Supernumeraries" (50%) are not celibate and follow modified commitments. Each category contains roughly equal numbers of men and women. There are also 700,000 "cooperators," like 1972 Vice-Presidential Nominee Sargent Shriver, who are not members but sympathizers. Cooperators need not be Catholics or even Christians, a radical concept when Escrivá instituted...