Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move that some city residents say could increase the power of the city's chief administrator to a dangerous level, the City Council last night voted 7-1 to extend City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract until...
...Status is an influence at every level. We resist the notion that it matters, but it's true. You can't escape it. You see it in restaurants -- not just in New York. People seem willing to pay any amount to be seen at this week's restaurant of the century. It's all part of what I call plutography: depicting the acts of the rich. They not only want to be seen at this week's restaurant of the century, they want to be embraced by the owner. But status isn't only to do with the rich. Status...
...meet in Beijing. But this will be much more than a photo-op. Such a summit would formally end an important advantage enjoyed by the U.S. since Richard Nixon visited China in 1972: Washington could talk to the leadership in both Beijing and Moscow, but ; there was no high-level dialogue between the Soviets and the Chinese and virtually no significant contact at lower levels...
...belief in the death penalty. The ads harped on Michael Dukakis' opposition to capital punishment, a position Dukakis was not shy about proclaiming anyway. The death penalty is a useful issue for any politician who believes that voltage wins votes. It works in a campaign, but on a different level, many Americans have clearly not come to terms with legalized killing. Politicians are not distinguishing themselves by the way they face this moral dilemma...
...recruits end up teaching college courses, the most prestigious positions in the educational system, but most enter at the elementary or high school level. For some, the long hours, the strains of work and the drop in pay and prestige can be sobering. "If you tell somebody you are a chemical engineer for Exxon, that's great," says Nancy Pfeil, 29, who left such a job in 1985 to teach high school calculus. "But if you say you are a high school teacher, they just...