Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miss America comes with such standard features as beauty, talent and ambition. But Vanessa Williams, 20, is unique in at least two ways. She is the first black titleholder in the 62-year history of the contest, and she is delightfully willing to speak her mind. She supports the Equal Rights Amendment and thinks abortion is "a right a woman should have." Asked endlessly about the significance of being the first black winner, she sighed, "It's hard to come up with fresh answers to a question that doesn't really mean anything." Furthermore, she said...
...years ago, whenever former Gov. Julian Carroll ventured out of the state, Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall used the opportunity to exercise her rights as the acting governor, often to contrary purposes of the governor. In one instance, she vetoed the Kentucky legislature's recession of its ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment--an issue whose legality had to be decided in the courts. This year's gubernatorial election involves the current Democratic Lt. Gov. Martha Layne Collins; Jim Bunning, a Republican state legislator and former baseball pitcher; and "Doc" Stumbo, a Democrat who is running as an independent. Current polls...
...original objectives are forgotten in a desperate search for a solution. Diplomatic initiatives, just as in Central America, must continue to take priority. But the president should remedy this misplaced emphasis not by unnecessary and even dangerous scaling back of military exercises, but by an infusion of equal effort and expertise on the diplomatic front...
...including Only the Lonely. His work with Ronstadt may be hard for him to describe ("I don't know what kind of arrangements I wrote for Linda. It is probably as mysterious to me as it is to you. One goes on instinct"), but it does them both equal honor. Ronstadt, working from the same basic list of tunes she had attempted in 1981, wanted to "present the songs as purely as the day they were written. I wanted the pure melodies to come...
...Tygiel for culling these names and others from scrapbooks and long-destroyed card collections. And at the most, Tygiel transforms a dramatic but simple tale into a complex metaphor for some of the driving forces of modern society. As he concludes:" ...if the vision of an integrated and equal society, free from racism and discrimination, which impelled Rickey and Robinson to launch their 'great experiment' remains unfulfilled, their efforts have brought it closer to reality...