Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The argument against implementing a system of equal pay for jobs of comparable worth [Feb. 6] because such a system would be prohibitively expensive reinforces the position of those in favor of such a measure. Your article states that raising the wage scales of jobs traditionally held by women to...
Mondale may have great difficulty fulfilling his promise to women to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, which requires approval by three-fourths of the states. He wants the Federal Government to eliminate sex differentials in the pay of federal workers. He says he would take steps to remedy the pay...
The windows revealed no sign of life within...There were not the extremes of poverty or wealth here, only the petite bourgeoisie, hiding their valuables, their woolen socks even, in chinks, behind toothless shutters, rusted gutters, decrepit walls, the plaster flaking off in scales. Yet the windows were barred and...
Moscow's position was both bogus and brazen. It was the Soviet Union that had upset the balance in the first place by deploying the mobile, triple-warhead SS-20 ballistic missile. The West Europeans urged Washington to redress the imbalance by getting the Soviets to cut back on...
As the furor grew, Watt, as usual, was hoping it would all blow over. "He's been hurt by this," said an aide, "but not mortally-at least for now." As Watt likes to put it: "When my liabilities outweigh my strengths, I should go." After his latest blunder...