Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mismatch between the Administration's objective and the instruments available, reminiscent of our ill-fated adventure in Lebanon," James Schlesinger, Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford, told TIME last week. "Mere dislike of the Sandinistas is not an - adequate basis for policy." Schlesinger contends that the rebels are no equal for the Nicaraguan army. "To define the American interest as that of the contras is to identify with a losing cause," says he. "To suggest that money for--and victory of--the contras is the only way to avoid introducing American troops is to come close to committing...
...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...
...journalists quivered in ecstasy. Prying SOBs out of the mighty is their new art form, and one that can pay palpable rewards. To be authenticated as an SOB by the President is equal to an Emmy or two in today's White House journalism...
...report suggests creating a Judiciary Board which would replace the CRR, take over almost all of the Administrative Board's powers, allow students open hearings upon request, treat disciplinary cases of student, faculty and administrators on an equal basis, and bring credibility, student participation and due process to Harvard's disciplinary system, according to the report's authors...
Special kudos also goes to M.K.Kamala Soparkar who played the evil third lady and the sweet fetching third boy with equal ease using her beautiful alto voice...