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...commission identifies as sex biased. Most important, according to the commission's report, women are still far from equal under the law. As many of them see it, an Equal Rights Amendment is −based on the evidence in the 14 states that have tried it−the surest way to establish the principle...
...misuse of "whom" in a subordinate clause ("They wanted to hire whomever was the best candidate"). A Johnson County instructor correctly insisted that Miller switch to "whoever," but at Emporia, an unidentified voice, presumably a graduate student, told Miller the sentence was correct as it stood. The quickest and surest correct answers to all three questions were provided by Little Rock's Montgomery, who mans his hot line during morning hours. His number...
Both Government experts and industry officials agree that the surest way to resolve the problem is to lift price controls. But that is politically difficult because it would boost living costs and thus run counter to the Administration's anti-inflation drive. Last week the DOE estimated that gasoline prices would rise by about 9? a gal. under present price controls by the end of 1980, and by about 13? a gal. if the restraints were lifted. Though the department contends that decontrol would probably not greatly increase the premium on unleaded, now 4.4%, it agrees that under...
Spring is a lyrical, intricate pas de deux for Kyra Nichols and Daniel Duell (who are husband and wife). It is the surest, most elegant part of the ballet. Summer, danced by Stephanie Saland and Bart Cook, is brief, languid and dreamy-it ends, in fact, with the couple dozing. Before that, however, they have hovered and swayed like goldenrod in their burnished costumes; this is a new and seemingly airborne partnership...
...surest way to expand exports, says he, is to sell more to the developing countries. "The new frontiers, the fastest-growing markets are there. We are in a helluva struggle with the Germans, the Japanese and others for those markets. We desperately need the minerals and the resources of the developing countries. We need to find new forms of enterprise, new methods of operating, some innovative approaches that will answer their needs as well as our needs...