Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...largest rallies ever for the Equal Rights Amendment. Since the ERA was approved by Congress in 1972, it has been ratified by 35 states, but the last was Indiana in January 1977. Feminists and their allies have only until June 1982 to win the three additional states needed...
...Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement," wrote Jacques Charles after making man's first ascent by hydrogen balloon in 1783. "It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss...
...immediate trigger for the feminist fury was the Equal Rights Amendment. Though many psychiatrists flaunted little ERA stickers on their name tags, A.P. A. members had voted last winter to drop the organization's boycott of states that had not ratified the amendment. That meant that next year's meeting would be held in non-ERA New Orleans. But the feminists, vowing to publicize the names of any psychiatrist who showed up in New Orleans, created such a clamor that one male doctor warned: "The A.P.A. is in big trouble." The organization's board of trustees apparently...
...nation's largest thrift institution, dropped its home lending rate from 17.5% to 12.75%. Said Irwin Kellner, chief economist at New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust: "Rates are following a financial version of Newton's law that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction...
...last month, a group of 94 unaffiliated dealers calling themselves Ohio Independents for Survival filed a complaint with DOE'S Office of Hearings and Appeals. After a speedy review, the department ordered Sohio to raise its prices 100 per gal. to more nearly equal the prices charged by the independents. Top White House officials, worried about the impact the ruling might have on Ohio voters in that state's June 3 presidential primary, expressed their displeasure to DOE. The department then quickly overruled the Office of Hearings and Appeals decision and reversed the reversal. It is now considering...