Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fair Lady, Henry Higgins put the question in a bouncing lyric: "Why can't a woman . . . ((ta-ta-ta-dum)) . . . be more like a man?" Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a major sex-discrimination case, Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, that touches on some further questions that Professor Higgins never got to. Can a woman be too much like a man, at least in the eyes of some male colleagues? And if her career suffers because she strikes them as gruff and hard-nosed, is she being penalized for qualities that might be treated as assets...
...saying goes, Dukakis bites off more than he can chew, but Bush chews more than he bites off. I think that's a fair distinction...
...citizenship under highly adverse and sometimes dangerous conditions. Applicant must be willing to fill gaps left by unfit, absent or working parents, satisfy demands of state politicians and local bureaucrats, impart healthy cultural and moral values and -- oh, yes -- teach the three Rs. Hours: 50-60 a week. Pay: fair (getting better). Rewards: mostly intangible...
...states, including California under Governor Ronald Reagan, had similar furlough programs. Says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of a history of campaign advertising, of the Bush spots: "Never before in a presidential campaign have televised ads sponsored by a major party candidate lied so blatantly." In their efforts to be fair and balanced, reporters were also reluctant to single out Bush for the negative tone of the campaign. Even though the Vice President was spending thousands more on negative ads than Dukakis and running them earlier, reporters generally blamed both sides equally for taking the low road...
...great lobbying power cigarette companies have held over Congress and in local politics. Citing a statistic that out of 451 congressional districts, tobacco is grown only in 51, White presents us with information regarding laws and national tobacco policies to show that the cigarette kings have more than their fair share of representation in Washington...