Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While the city is actively lobbying at the state level to gain support for the restoration of these funds, I am not optimistic about our chances for success," Healy wrote...
...Johnston notes, a woman athlete eager to avoid being "branded" as a lesbian may flaunt her heterosexuality, and an insensitivity "one level above homophobia" is likely to emerge...
...openly gay person who gains acceptance on a personal level can further the cause of the entire gay community by dispelling myths and prompting realizations that discrimination against gays is wrong and misguided. The more this is recognized and accepted in society, the easier it will be for others to come...
Hazelwood appeared to be in control of himself when he boarded the Exxon Valdez Thursday night, March 23. But when his blood was tested fully nine hours after the ship ran aground, he had a blood-alcohol level of .06, higher than the .04 the Coast Guard considers acceptable for ship captains. Assuming he drank nothing after the accident and his body metabolized at the normal rate, Hazelwood's level at the time of the accident was about .19, almost double the amount that causes a motorist to be judged drunk in many states. Exxon fired Hazelwood after...
Elektrosila is an exception among Soviet factories, which lag at least a generation behind their Western counterparts in efficiency and quality. The typical Soviet plant's labor productivity is a paltry one-third the average level of factories in non-Communist industrial countries. At the same time, Soviet plants use two to three times as much energy and raw materials as ( Western factories consume for the same amount of output. Since most Soviet plants answer only to bureaucrats instead of consumers, finished merchandise is often shoddy or simply the wrong type of product to meet demand...