Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, he said legislation can rarely assure that the disadvantaged will receive an equal share of resources. "That has to come from leadership," he said...
...right. An aristocrat whose grandfather made a family fortune selling fire-resistant brick, the Princeton-educated, preppie-looking Bond entered Republican politics young and in 1972 became Missouri's first Republican Governor in 32 years. He was then considered a moderate, and his reformist notions and support of the Equal Rights Amendment alienated some G.O.P. conservatives. Defeated for re-election in 1976, he came back as a conservative and won a second term four years later. During the Senate campaign, Bond got an unintentional boost when Woods ran a TV spot that pictured a farmer in tears, provoking a serious...
Money can can skew democracy. The ideal behind the one-man, one-vote credo--that every citizen should have an equal input--falls in the face of interests which are able to manipulate candidates through large make-or-break contributions...
...THAT WAS it: superstition made metaphysical reality, through artful and intelligent craftsmanship. Landis is far from the most offensive practitioner of this cinematic strand--few could equal Steven Spielberg's contributions to mass know-nothingness--but it is unfortunate to watch so much talent put to so little good. In his own mind, Landis is a subtle social commentator who is also able to sell tickets. He said he viewed Trading Places as a statement against racism and Spies Like Us, a film universally dismissed as lame, as the first picture to take a stand against President Reagan's "Star...
Then the Pudding became more popular, as a fun place to drink and party on Thursday nights and occasional weekends. The club had to start a lottery for membership slots. Sounds fair, right? Of course, the officers' friends were more equal than others in the lottery, but anyone who lost out in the lottery their first time around was assured of a win the next semester...