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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women's Rights. Unemployed female heads of household won the right to be paid welfare benefits, like men; divorced women can now also be made to pay alimony, like men. But the court would not go as far as the women's rights movement wants it to, and treat sex discrimination just like racial discrimination. In one important case, Massachusetts vs. Feeney, the Justices rejected the argument that veterans preference laws discriminate against women because 98% of all veterans in Massachusetts are men. The court reasoned that the laws were not meant to hurt women, but to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Court with No Identity | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...offers some clues to any future program. Car owners would get ration coupons and could sell unused coupons on a "white market" at any price; each car would be allotted about 50 gal. a month, though the totals would vary by state; no more than three cars in each household could receive coupons; extra rations would be given to police cars, ambulances, taxis, farm tractors; heavy recreational vehicles would get nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How to Counter OPEC | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...colleagues had great difficulty getting at the root causes of such behavior. Says Straus: "The reasons are mixed-psychological, sociological, situational." The head of the household, for example, may feel under particular stress because he has been out of work too long. Violence may also be an echo of the past. Explains Straus: "When Mommy gives her two-year-old a slap for putting something dirty in his mouth, he is learning from infancy that those who love you hit you." Another trigger may be war or inflation. Says Gelles gloomily: "If heating goes up to a buck a gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Violent Families | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...Dickerson, Md., housewife, the pain and stiffness were almost unbearable. Even dressing required aid. Often the swelling in her joints was so severe that she could not get out of bed before noon. No medications seemed to help. That was a year ago. Today Rachel can dress easily, do household chores and climb up the nine flights of stairs to her doctor's office. Her startling rejuvenation is in part the result of a novel experimental treatment that may eventually help many other victims of severe rheumatoid arthritis as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Purge | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...narrow his field of social vision was. He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery. Most of his paintings are condensed sonnets in praise of the middle path, the sober life of the Parisian petite bourgeoisie, especially as embodied in his own household. He is said to have had a chirpy sense of humor, and there is certainly a sly and robust irony in his singeries, or monkey paintings, where hairy little parodies of man play at being painters and connoisseurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sonneteer of a World at Rest | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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