Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble ahead for the U.S. economy. Real after-tax income growth has been slow for years, yet consumers have continued to buy; they have simply substituted debt for cash. Now they are even flashing plastic to buy groceries. Household borrowing currently stands at a record $1.14 trillion, an amount equal to Britain's entire gross domestic product. A spike in interest rates could thus send U.S. consumers--not to mention the rest of the economy--into a funk...
...jurisprudence turns judges into illicit legislators who substitute their policy preferences for those of the people's democratically elected officials. Last week, for example, he refused to join the rest of the court in holding that the tax-supported, men-only Virginia Military Institute violated women's right to equal protection of the laws. A democratic system, Scalia wrote, "is destroyed if the smug assurances of each age are removed from the democratic process and written into the Constitution...
...wages and benefits are equal to or better than any of the union wages and benefits," said Chuck Floyd, C.E. Floyd's owner. "They have never even asked me for information about our wages and benefits. They're making claims without ever checking any of the facts...
...14th Amendment guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws." It is the part of the Constitution used to bar state discrimination against blacks, women and so on. What, then, would it mean to guarantee fetuses equal protection of the laws? People who hire professional killers to eliminate their born children are prosecuted for murder. Under equal protection, the same would have to be true of women who hire doctors to eliminate their fetuses. Furthermore, many states execute people who deliberately kill, or arrange for the killing of, innocent human beings. The Republican platform is quite enthusiastic about this practice...
...doom of the blues. Ella's art had a sunnier side, a more adaptive quality that let her be, if not an absolute original, a peerless interpreter, a superb vocal actress who could snuggle into Porter's playfulness or Arlen's melodrama or Ellington's chromatic gymnastics with equal agility. Billie Holiday's music was a lifeline. She lived out all the suffering of her songs. For Ella Fitzgerald, music seemed more like a safe harbor, a home from which she rarely ventured...