Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flynn, 44, was born and raised in the Irish working-class district of South Boston. In his early days as a state legislator, he was an outspoken conservative, opposing school busing and the Equal Rights Amendment and supporting the death penalty. Though he is still against busing, he has moved to the center on most other issues. Both he and King vowed that they would shift the city's resources away from the downtown development that has been favored by retiring Mayor Kevin White and back into Boston's long-neglected neighborhoods. Softening his populism with tiny doses...
...five women--by the time they graduate from Harvard--have experienced a serious of very serious incident of harassment, from someone with authority over them. This translates into a yearly rate of serious harassment cases, nearly three times as high as the which Dr. Mary Rowe, the Equal Education Opportunity Commission (EEOC) officer at MIT, estimates as the norm in similar institutions...
...examine feminism after the Equal Rights Amendment fails? Why not social and racial issues near the first Martin Luther King Day? And why "family issues" now? Channel 7 suggests that the Kennedy legacy somehow represents a definite philosophy on all these themes. It would seem that Kennedy's tacit fondness for culture in the White House (Pablo Casals played there, remember) justifies a complete review of "the arts, entertainment and the media." Or perhaps Channel 7 just recognizes that the Kennedys make good television--they're young, glamorous, attractive, and rich. It seems safe to assume that brothers playing touch...
...SOVIETS, of course, have been equally intransigent. Poland and Afghanistan were clearly expansionist moves despite all of Pravda's explanations to the contrary. The Soviet nostalgia over 50 years of relations, remembering American Soviet relations as years of American perniciousness broken only by Presidents Kennedy and Roosevelt is only a slightly less reasonable form of illusion-making than arguments about who is more committed to peace. Moreover, the repressive Soviet regime promises little for an intelligent Soviet approach to the issues of diplomacy, since Soviet leaders practice an equal level of outrageous posturing with their own citizens and with...
Perhaps this means they're going through a similar character-building era in New Haven Perhaps we can nervously await terrible retribution to equal the 45-7 settling of accounts Harvard inflicted on the Bulldogs a year...