Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Considering the factional nature of Lebanese politics, the nation should have a bicameral legislature, with a house of representatives elected on a majority basis and a senate elected, or appointed, on a religious basis. Such a system would allow the power to be shared and give everyone equal representation...
Like King, Flynn has moved toward the center, reversing both his onetime opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and his support for the death penalty. Also, like his opponent, he is an unbudging advocate of rent control. Flynn, a former probation officer, who was a star basketball player at Providence College, says that in Boston the gravest inequality is economic, not racial. Accordingly, he tries not to pander to conventional white prejudices. His mother and tubercular father were on the dole for several years, he says, and so loose talk about " 'welfare chiselers' and 'welfare cheats...
...positions taken, battle lines drawn, articles written. No movie since CBS's 1980 Holocaust film Playing for Time has stirred such a dust devil of ideological p.r., but the stakes are even larger here. The Day After cost an opulent $7 million, and its promotion budget may ultimately equal that fig ure. ABC, gambling that it will make up in ratings what it misses in ad dollars, schedules the film for sweeps week, when the three networks all go for broke in the ratings. The timing is perfect: Nov. 20 is not only a Nielsen trifecta, it is less...
...Beall. "We de-emphasize the race because we start later than other schools." Beall says, referring to the Harvard crews. "We haven't done enough conditioning yet. The Head is a funny race. It emphasizes the coxswain's role because of all the cornering and passing. Conditions are not equal for all teams in that sense; sometimes you get caught behind a slow boat that won't pull over. A lot of fun, but just sort of a crazy race...
...those critical of its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. The conservatives won, and Chamorro's brother Xavier, editor of La Prensa, left to form his own newspaper, taking most of the staff with him. Today Chamorro's widow, his brothers and sisters and four children are arrayed in almost equal numbers on opposing sides of the country's political battleground...