Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Brownmiller, the difference between a traditional woman and a feminist is that one shaves her legs and wears perfume and the other does not. And all this time I thought the big issues were equal pay and equal rights...
...early make-or-break primaries and caucuses, labor's manpower means more to Mondale's well-heeled campaign than money. In Iowa, for example, the AFL-CIO has some 100,000 members, a number roughly equal to the anticipated turnout in the caucuses. The national headquarters of the labor group has sent 35 organizers to the state to direct the drive to win delegates for Mondale. Using telephone banks, a direel-mail campaign and union newsletters, the leaders expect to reach all of the membership with pro-Mondale appeals. The U.A.W. will try to persuade...
Mondale may have great difficulty fulfilling his promise to women to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, which requires approval by three-fourths of the states. He wants the Federal Government to eliminate sex differentials in the pay of federal workers. He says he would take steps to remedy the pay disparities between jobs traditionally held by men and those dominated by women. Under the contentious principle of "comparable worth," he would equalize pay for jobs requiring the same level of skill and effort; a counselor for the handicapped, say, might be paid the same as an equipment operator. Most economists...
...majority (57%) think that Mondale has locked up the Democratic nomination. Only about one-third attribute Mondale's lead purely to personal popularity. An equal number cited his strong campaign organization and his support from party leaders and interest groups. Mondale's wide name recognition serves him well: while 74% said they were "aware" that he is a candidate, only 59% were able to name Glenn without prompting, and only 15% could name Hart...
...Claude, Moore engages rival Stein in a spectacular "dueling violins" scene and sends the apprentice crashing into the tables. With equal case, Moore brings freshness and warmth to a potentially hackneyed older-jealous-husband-suspects-young-sexy-wife routine...