Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever the outcome of this year's tournament, the real winner is the sport, which--23 years after Title IX mandated equal opportunities for women--has come into its own without sacrificing ethics. "For years," says Greenberg, "I took a lot of ridicule for covering the women: 'Hey, Mel, what's it like in a girls' locker room?'- stupid stuff like that. But now my friends talk about Rebecca Lobo the way they did last year about Grant Hill. We're finally getting some respect here...
...available information is immense--and spectacularly manipulatable. The agency's computer system at Langley stores more than 4 trillion bytes of secret information--equal to a stack of documents 30 miles high. Its computer-disk farms, which take up two floors the area of two football fields, have numbers and letters painted on the walls, like a parking lot, so technicians don't get lost in the mainframes. It once took cia analysts months to identify members of a terrorist group who might be recruited as informants. Now using an "link-analysis" program, the informants can be spotted in seconds...
...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...
...meager earnings in income tax, but 12.4% to Social Security. Those figures, it is true, include the half share of Social Security taxes supposedly paid by employers--and so they should, say economists; in reality the worker pays the whole tax. A business owner who must pay an amount equal to 6.2% of a new worker's wages to the Social Security Administration simply reduces the worker's starting wage by that much...
...pension plans. The enforced savings and investment features of the new system are already credited with one remarkable outcome: the net worth of the average Chilean--$21,000--is almost four times the worker's average annual salary. By comparison, the average American has a net worth just about equal to the average U.S. salary...