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...percent of the respondents agree with the substantive clause of the ERA, "that equal rights under the law should NOT be denied on account of sex." Yet, by comparison, only 66 percent support the ERA versus 24 percent who are opposed. Ten percent are undecided, by far the largest group of undecided in 36 questions.... Respondents generally agree that women should have equal opportunities and be equal in all spheres, but 14 percent think that "women will end up with things they don't want--too much equality" and one-third (34%) agree that "there is such a thing...
...have sparked a string of fare wars that along with the recession have crippled the entire industry. People is one of the few carriers that has been able to keep costs low enough to turn a profit. The airline earned $2.1 million in the first quarter, while the eleven largest carriers suffered a combined operating loss of $619 million...
...most of this year's 965,000 college seniors, the largest class ever, who are having a difficult time finding work in an economy that is slowly recovering from the recession. Says Thomas C. Devlin, director of Cornell University's career center: "The American dream of getting the diploma in one hand and the job in the other has been deteriorating." Wayne Wallace, placement director at Indiana University in Bloomington, predicts, "This year is probably going to be the most difficult for college grads since World...
Before the white man came, the Indians venerated them as gods. Weighing as much 1,000 Ibs. and rearing up to 8 ft. on their hind legs, the great humpbacked beasts-among the largest carnivores in North America-can kill an elk or crumple the fender of a car with a swipe of a powerful paw. Still, for all its might, the grizzly, or more properly Ursus arctos horribilis (terrible northern bear), has become pathetically vulnerable...
...themselves for fear they might accidentally disturb a bear), at least 50,000 grizzlies ranged from Texas to Oregon. Today, as a result of hunting, poaching and encroachment on their habitat, no more than 1,000 grizzlies, if that many, survive in the lower 48 states. One of the largest groups, probably no more than 200 bears, form an isolated, highly threatened band in and around Yellowstone National Park, where their survival has been the subject of a surprisingly ferocious argument among the very people who want to save them...