Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...study abroad program, but the Council ignored this fact, since technical feasibility was not really the issue in the decision. Rather, Harvard's reputation was at stake, for to grant credit widely for study abroad would be to admit openly that another university can provide an educational experience equal to a year at Harvard. The collective ego recoiled at such a thought, and the problem of study abroad became moot...
...biggest toll was paid by the elderly and the poor who lived too far from their jobs to walk and could not afford cabs. Anna Mack, 53, drove to her job as a cleaning woman in Rockefeller Center and had to pay parking fees of $8.50 a night, equal to about one-fourth of her take-home pay. A quarter of the city's garment workers, most of them non white and poor, could not get to their jobs...
...Woman have to risk creating new patterns," Friedan said. Friedan also stressed that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) must be ratified to assure the continued progress of the women's movement...
...compass and comprehend such a transformation is a huge undertaking, but last week New York's Metropolitan Museum proved it was equal to the task. It triumphantly opened a set of new galleries that allow the museum to display the full riches of its 19th century collection. Built with a $2.5 million gift from the late André Meyer, an investment banker and longtime trustee, the galleries supply more than half an acre of floor space, topped by a vast glass-gridded ceiling that extends, free of supports, over the whole area. The galleries are part...
...fans, for their part, probably have an equal lack of sympathy for the owners and the players, whose salaries (average this year: $121,900) seem stratospheric even in an age of rampant inflation. In the spring, they have only one nonnegotiable demand: Play ball...