Word: standardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. Twice the committee deadlocked, 7 to 7, on sending the nomination to the full Senate, effectively killing the appointment of William Lucas, 61, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Republican committee members denounced the votes as bigoted and based on a double standard. Lucas was turned down, said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in an angry statement, as a "result of raw politics...
...Some Blacks have some kind of double standard, but that's not right," said Mike. "Your friend would have said the same thing to a white...
...Mexico for granted, although less so than before. The people with decision-making powers in the U.S. still do not understand the gravity of the problems Mexico is facing. I do not think there is a real appreciation in the U.S. yet for what the tremendous drop in the standard of living of the Mexican people really means, what the drop in government spending on education, on health, on infrastructure really means for the country and the people. I do not think the U.S. understands how close Mexico is to the brink...
...seven years since its debt crisis first erupted, Mexico has struggled to make the economic reforms demanded by its creditors. The government has broken up some state monopolies, curbed subsidies and imposed such severe austerity measures that the country's standard of living has fallen below what it was a decade ago. Yet Mexico's economy has stagnated, largely because of its crushing debt burden (current total: $100 billion...
...uses the same digital recording technology that produces the clear tone of the compact disc. And just as the CD sounds better than a regular LP, a DAT tape is a quantum advance from a standard audio tape. The DAT tape is also conveniently small: 2 3/4 in. long, compared with 4 in. for an ordinary cassette. But better sound will initially come at a high price: DAT recorders are expected to run at least $1,000, and prerecorded tapes could cost more than $25. The recorders, along with DAT tapes of everyone from Mozart to | Madonna, could start appearing...