Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to be making an equal effort to work out its problems with Italy. Whether justified or not, White House aides felt betrayed by the Italian Prime Minister's release of Abbas, and they were not about to forgive and forget instantly. Said a State Department official: "We felt Craxi created his own problem and is paying the price." Nonetheless, said another diplomat, "we don't see any precipitous departure from the major lines of U.S.-Italian relations...
...that we have never been able to think in terms of political coalitions." In the U.N.'s General Assembly, dubbed a "town meeting of the world" by former Secretary-General Trygve Lie, each nation--from the Seychelles (pop. 65,000) to China (pop. more than 1 billion)--has an equal vote. As the number of U.N. member nations mushroomed from 50 to 159, the so-called nonaligned nations ganged up on the U.S. and its surrogates, most notably Israel, while the Soviet Union sat back and cheered. The Israel bashing reached grotesque heights in 1975 when the General Assembly passed...
...play with players equal and better than us, some of the top water polo players in the country...
Until a 1975 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit, Coors employees included only 7 percent women, 6 percent Chicanos and three percent Blacks. Female and elderly workers have charged their employer harassment, discrimination, and attempts to drive them out of the company by giving them particularly strenuous tasks and schedules. Unfair demands included requiring them to work back-to-back shifts, graveyard shifts and in some instances 14 days...
Calvino is the zero-sum writer, creating an interconnected world, where for every wording there must be a rewording, though maybe not an equal and opposite one. A word is an event, and, as an event, has repercussions on many levels: if there is a whirlwind of starlings crisscrossing the sky, then there will be a network below of messages along the telephone lines, as Mr. Palomar and his odd friends exchange observations on the birds. Calvino is a great writer because he is a great reader--he reads the world as if it were a book...