Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thanks to the members of the U.S. Senate for their courageous action today in voting for the Panama Canal neutrality treaty. I am confident that the Senate will show the same courage and foresight when it considers the second treaty. This is a promising step toward a new era in our relationships with Panama and with all of Latin America." He singled out Byrd, Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, Gerald Ford and John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations...
...change their minds, making Kentucky the fourth state to rescind approval of the amendment that would ban discrimination on the basis of sex. Some constitutional experts doubt that a legislature can legally have second thoughts about ratification. Nonetheless, the vote in Kentucky was another sign that the ERA is in deep trouble, even though it has been approved by 35 states, three short of the number needed to make it part of the Constitution...
...more pressure on holdouts, the National Organization for Women since February 1977 has been urging supporters to hold conventions and other meetings only in states that have approved the amendment. But the boycott has produced no new votes for the ERA and is being challenged in court by Missouri and Nevada as an illegal restraint of trade...
...ERA supporters seem to be running out of time: the measure will die if not ratified by 38 states before March 22, 1979. This week the amendment's backers will begin putting pressure on Congress to extend the deadline for ratification. On Wednesday, March 22, they will try to buttonhole Senators and Representatives; they intend to do so again on the 22nd of every month until Congress acts or the ERA expires. Although Justice Department lawyers believe Congress has the right to extend the deadline without requiring that the ratification process start over from scratch, some legal scholars disagree...
...variety of creative productive elements add to the show, bringing it closer to the era it portrays. The costuming is generally good and accurate to the period, although the working class characters dress a little too well. Anne Fine's piano playing and singing and the occasional dance numbers convey a sense of false gaiety the action fails to achieve...