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Being in a wheelchair, I am occasionally asked whether there is any distinction between the terms "disability" and "handicap." The former refers specifically to a condition of physical impairment such as paraplegia (paralysis of the lower limbs), deafness or blindess. The term handicap, however, can be defined more generally as anything that substantially impedes normal activity. The two concepts need not be synonymous. A person in a wheelchair, when provided with a barrier-free environment (e.g., curb cuts, ramps, accessible toilet facilities, lowered telephones, drinking fountains and elevator buttons) may experience no handicap whatsoever. In contrast, a shopper wearing elevator...
Economists differ on whether these signs add up yet to "full employment," an increasingly misleading term that is taken to mean the point at which further demand for workers sets off an inflationary wage explosion. Henry Wallich, a governor of the Federal Reserve, insists that the U.S. is already at full employment, even with a jobless rate of 6%. Liberal economists put the trigger point at 5½% or less, meaning that there is still some safety margin, but not much...
...Communism; of a heart attack; in Melbourne. The son of a small-town grocer, Menzies always had "a respect for the rights of the top dog." He was never a popular leader, but he towered above his colleagues as a magnificent orator and consummate politician. Nevertheless, his first term as Prime Minister, from 1939 to 1941, ended with a sweeping victory for the Labor Party. He made a spectacular comeback in 1949, after warning Australians that "a vote for labor is a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom...
...chairman of the 1972 Democratic National Convention and made history as the first member of Congress to be granted a maternity leave. But after six years of involvement in national politics, California Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 45, has decided to go local. Instead of trying for a fourth term in the capital, she is now running for state attorney general. "In Washington, I was only one out of 43 members of the California congressional delegation. In California, I will be one out of one," says Burke. When asked whether California voters are ready to have a woman...
This legislative preoccupation with the trivial, which is confirmed in almost every state capital, goes by the term microphilia. Though the ailment was named only a few years ago (by a justly obscure political diagnostician), it has been in evidence as long as state legislatures have existed-though sometimes upstaged by more dramatic defects such as procrastination, carelessness and venality. These larger historic faults were undoubtedly in the mind of John Burns when he wrote in The Sometime Governments (1970): "We expect very little of our legislatures, and they continually live up to our expectations." In fact, many state legislatures...