Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because the young ordinarily have reservations about political parties. And it brings a new, different tone to our politics. They are very sensitive to anything that has to do with human rights, generosity, the Third World, culture, scientific research, the adventure of the mind, education, professional training and equal opportunity. They reject discriminations. For them, these problems supersede the others...
...question "Can she act?" cannot be answered. The shrewdness in her performance is clear, but so, alas, is her thinking process: she lacks ease and naturalness. Mantegna, by contrast, superbly manages his character's clashing mental states. Silver is captivating, especially in a second-act tantrum that is equal parts rage, hurt, con-artist scam and genuine grief at a betrayal...
...ridiculous stuff. Nobody asks what this says about the kinds of criteria Reagan is willing to use in his everyday--or even world shaking--decisions. If we begin by accepting astrology as an innocuous eccentricity, we will be more likely to accept a government run on ignorance, and give "equal time" for wrong and right...
...cannot at this point give them equal support" as the department gives to intercollegiate athletic squads, Malekoff says...
...renew the act, but he supported an amendment by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond to limit its extension to 15 rather than 25 years. Nunn voted against ending a filibuster holding up a fair-housing bill in 1980, opposed a 1978 move to extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment, and has supported a constitutional amendment to limit abortion. In 1972 Nunn ran as an antibusing ! candidate and supported George Wallace for President. Nonetheless, he has long enjoyed cordial relations with Atlanta's black establishment, including such people as Andrew Young, John Lewis and Coretta Scott King. Their...