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...drafted, or the right to refuse combat duty if women may refuse. Women's agenda includes, as is long overdue, equal pay for equal work-but also includes equal pay for "comparable worth" in any job, a matter more difficult to define. Their agenda includes as well the "mop-up" of all discriminatory legislation against women and the severe patrol of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which grants women protection against any form of citizen discrimination. Where their agenda leads, no one knows-except that it is akin to the black agenda: always more and always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: The Shaping of the Presidency 1984 | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Gaining valuable playing experience in mop-up appearances. Giella spent the year under the tutelage of then All-Ivy tackle Serge Mihaly "Serge gave so much of himself." Giella says now, "especially to the younger guys. He spent time with me, showing me the very things I use today...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Deserves credit, shuns dessert | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...vivid proof that the door-to-door fighting was bitter and bloody. Iraqi soldiers recount with incredulity how Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's zealous guardsmen, after their ammunition was exhausted, persisted in fighting to the death with sticks and knives. Said an Iraqi major who conducted some of the mop-up operations: "They were crazy. Many of them wore a gold key around their necks. They said they were told by Khomeini that the key would unlock the door to heaven in the next life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ghost Town on the Gulf | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

They form a merry band (at headquarters, they're known as the Four Horsemen) and they move through every campaign in the Second World War--North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, and finally a mop-up of the Eastern Front--without a scratch. While the wetnose replacements who join them for each campaign get shot to pieces, Marvin and his gang survive with a magical invincibility...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

They form a merry band (at headquarters, they're known as the Four Horsemen) and they move through every campaign in the Second World War--North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, and finally a mop-up of the Eastern Front--without a scratch. While the wetnose replacements who join them for each campaign get shot to pieces, Marvin and his gang survive with a magical invincibility...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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