Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better team," Bentley said. "We just have a tendency to play down to the level of our opponent. We have a good chance of beating UMass and giving Brown a tough fight...
...Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. Female factory workers in 14 plants across the country have been forced to choose between sterilization operations and demotion. The company's "Fetal Protection Policy," in effect since 1982, bars fertile women from hazardous and high-paying work involving exposure to a high level of lead...
Some performers live in memory as icons of their eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality...
...resorting to their common store of instincts: to fight or flee, to seek food, shelter, sex. The difficulties of capturing all this on film, using actors that are willful, dangerous and, of course, nonverbal, requires awesome patience and artifice, both on location and in postproduction. At the level of technique, The Bear is to other films about nature what Star Wars was to science-fiction movies: a redefinition of the state...
...House Intelligence Committee. "And it ought to remain there. The fact that there's a little bit of uncertainty about the Executive Order serves a useful purpose. We should be cautious when it comes to coups that may lead to assassination." In fact, the CIA has procedures for high-level review of operations that could violate the ban. And yet a clear distinction between coups and assassinations is not always possible. The ban was not originally meant to restrict covert political-action operations at all, recalls Helms. "A coup d'etat seems to be confused by some people with...