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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman under the age of 30 if she is a feminist, and chances are she will shoot back a decisive, and perhaps even a derisive, no. But in the very next breath, the same young woman will allow that while she does not identify with the angry aspects of the movement in the '60s and '70s or with its clamorous leaders, she certainly plans on a career as well as marriage and three kids. She definitely expects her husband -- present or future -- to do his share of the dusting, the diapering, the dinner and dishes. She would be outraged were...
When a big story breaks, the first thing reporters do is get the news. The next thing, usually, is to round up a few experts to say what it all means. Too often, what gets experts quoted -- and called again the next time news relates to their specialty -- is not specific knowledge of a case but crisp, piquant opinion. The expert enjoys the publicity; the journalist enlivens a story. The losers are the public, who get ill-informed speculation masquerading as analysis, and the news subjects, who are assessed in intimate, knowing terms by strangers...
...other by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Both concluded that what American high-technology industries need is more Government leadership, not less. Said Ian Ross, president of AT&T Bell Laboratories and chairman of NACS: "Every trend you look at is in the wrong direction for the U.S." Next day the Administration reversed itself again, denying that it had any plans for technology budget cuts...
...also took Illinois Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan off the hook. Once a man who sounded at times like a foe of abortion, it was his department that would have argued for the restrictions when the case came before the Supreme Court. But Hartigan will be running for Governor next year. Now he can campaign as a defender of -- what else? -- abortion rights...
...budgeteers hiked levies on oil and chemicals, advanced the collection dates for various taxes, and increased fees on such items as tickets for international air travel and cruises. Except for a leap in the amount of personal income subject to Social Security taxes from $48,000 to $51,300 next Jan. 1, the tax boosts do not directly affect large numbers of people -- that is, voters...