Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many restrictions were lifted after bargainingefforts by the office of the U.S. TradeRepresentative, which threatened to imposeeconomic sanctions if tobacco compnaies were notallowed to trade on equal footing with domesticproducers...
...building would make a lobbyist drool. The latest and fanciest edifice in Washington's central commercial district is 1801 L Street, with a red marble exterior and a gold-plated price: $33 a square foot, a third more than neighboring rentals. The biggest tenant: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency that is supposed to enforce antidiscrimination laws. Why should taxpayers spend $5.5 million a year to house Government bureaucrats in such lavish premises? For one thing, says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, lesser quarters "would be sending the wrong signal" and might even cause people not to take...
...that Bush, who was once in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment and pro-choice on abortion, changed his spots overnight when he became Reagan's running mate...
...touch-typing "home" keys, which are now standard equipment on all Apple keyboards. "You still have to learn how to type," says Karl Dahlke, a blind software engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Ill. In that regard, however, the able and the disabled are on equal footing -- which is just how the handicapped like things...
...would beat everyone by 25 seconds." He adds that if Evans could be persuaded to enter the very long races that are scheduled occasionally -- a 16-miler, say -- "she would beat the men." This may be true. The gender game doesn't prove much; other top women swimmers now equal men's records of 20 years ago. But it is interesting to learn that Evans' 4:05.45 world record for the 400-meter free beats Mark Spitz's 4:07.7 world record of 1968, and that her 800-meter free record, 8:17.12, would have won any men's race...