Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statistics are hard to come by, Mafia activity is actually reported to have been on the rise during the past two years in Arizona, despite the supposed crackdown on organized crime after the Bolles murder. Spending for law enforcement in fiscally-conservative Arizona has finally reached the per-capita level of most other states since the Bolles killing, but police complain that the funding is still seriously inadequate because of Arizona's much higher incidence of organized crime. In addition, many of the increases in the state's law enforcement budget have been devoted to relatively unimportant or gimmicky solutions...
Another campus standout, Phyllis Wallace, now in her 50s, has been burdened by prejudice against blacks as well as women. She spent decades in and out of undistinguished middle-level teaching and Government jobs before her talents were finally recognized and she was made a tenured professor at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. Wallace believes that the main difficulty facing young women entering the field of economics is to break into the mentor-protégé system, which has historically excluded females. Says she: "Without a mentor, you have a lot of trouble getting money...
...thing they have in common is a fascination with architecture as language. When tradition (including the Modernist tradition) appears in their work, it is quoted rather than adhered to. There is no common style. Above all, they have no uniting ideology, as the Bauhaus or, on a less exalted level, the corporate American architects of the '50s had. Yet they are regularly grouped under one umbrella phrase: Post-Modernism...
MOSCOW--Senate minority leader Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) and five other Republican senators arrived in the Soviet Union yesterday for a series of high-level meetings with Soviet officials on the strategic arms limitation talks and other issues...
...think we have to recognize that Iranian production is unlikely ever to return to the pre-crisis level. If we get production back to five million, 5 1/2 million barrels a day, I think that would be fortunate," he said...