Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunity cost method estimates the homemaker's unpaid labor by assuming it is equal to the average earnings for women with the same educational level in the same educational field...
Shames seems to think the answer to the Radcliffe debate is to reinstitute women's separate but equal education at Harvard. I am opposed to the existence of Radcliffe as it stands, but reading this column enraged me. I am crossing my fingers that the administrators of both Harvard and Radcliffe who are currently engaged in discussion are aware enough of student feelings to know that no one has expressed a concern for any problems whose resolution would take the form of reviving a separate education for women at Harvard...
...fearful of a little boy being nurtured to health by these two men. In one bold move, the State overcame its fear long enough to make New Jersey a leader. New Jersey became the first state in the nation to allow gay couples to adopt children on equal footing to married heterosexual couples. Across this nation, Americans were told of this historic decision, they were told the truth about our son and our struggle to adopt. They were asked to decide for themselves. While many Americans were fearful and uncomfortable with something different, they were nonetheless able to recognize...
...this theory, Californians don't follow politics, and the local news media barely cover it--so hiring hot consultants and buying maximum TV time is all that counts. It seemed the primary would be a shootout between Harman, an astute but little-known politician whose campaign is based on equal parts of gender (57% of California Democrats are women) and wealth (her husband, audio-component magnate Sidney Harman, has given millions to her cause), and Checchi, a leveraged-buyout wizard who has already spent $30 million on the primary, a record for a statewide campaign. Checchi's commercials have been...
...marriage, but then, "when she was still on the cane, she had a face like the dimensions of a crystal, all chiseled with wisdom, smarts, heartache, all beautiful like a flock of birds scared up off the cove, all beautiful like the sound of cellos..." he had thought himself equal to the task of caring for her as she deteriorated. After he forfeits his well-loved job at the local nuclear power plant in a final act of loyalty to cover a policy mistake, he inventories his suddenly unsatisfactory life and realizes what a drain Billie has become, and vanishes...