Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same job cannot be paid differently because of their race or sex, a concept known as equal pay for equal work. The issue of equal pay for comparable work, however, is vastly more complex. It arises because studies show that jobs traditionally held by women (nurse, librarian, secretary) tend to pay less than jobs generally held by men (accountant, construction worker, trucker) that seem to demand the same level of skills, responsibility and effort. This is a major reason why working women, despite equal-pay laws, still earn only about 60? for every dollar earned by men. The question...
...columning. Put together Donaldson's blunt demeanor and Will's ideological questions on This Week with David Brinkley, and Brinkley, who once seemed acerb, comes out courtly by contrast. But then Brinkley was never as fiercely acerbic as his reputation; the targets of his own wry remarks tend to be "politicians," "bureaucrats," "generals," but only rarely individuals cited by name...
They also, as the newly arrived exile discovered, tend to a certain confusion about other lands. The tasty title track of his second album, Mariel, summons memories of the Cuban port from which the boat people sailed in 1980. D'Rivera, already fatigued with explaining this and with insisting that "all the Marielitos are not so bad," has taken recently to saying that the song is about the leading lady of Star...
...line between art and entertainment is often indistinct, and never more so than in musical theater. We tend to think of opera, the sung play, as the pinnacle of a form whose lower manifestations include the Viennese operetta and the Broadway show. But such rigid categorizing is myopic. Like M. Jourdain in Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who was delighted to discover that he had been speaking prose all his life, even composers with the most commercial motives may turn out to have been writing memorable, lasting scores. Two of the most electrifying operas...
...which smoking and drinking still carry the faint air of impropriety. Conservatism remains a powerful force in other ways: homosexuality has been openly condemned by the church as "incompatible with Christian teaching," and liberation theology is regarded by some Methodist clergy as the dogma of radical leftists. Conservative members tend to blame their leaders' increasing liberalism for a serious decline in the church. Since 1968 membership has fallen by 1.5 million, Sunday-school enrollment is down by 3 million, and American Methodists sent abroad to spread the word as missionaries are down to a mere 531, a decline...