Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Muskie's impassioned 15-minute address followed an equal-length rebroadcast of President Nixon's Saturday night speech in Phoenix, Ariz., in which the president asked voters to elect Congressional candidates who would draw the line against demonstrators he labeled "thugs...
...quorum for a religious service (minyan) is ten men, and-except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps...
...change in character. Such is the breadth and depth of Solzhenitsyn's vision that he chooses to be the voice of these voiceless and mediocre many. Without ever resorting to formal religious terminology, he says in effect that each of these humdrum souls is precious and equal in the sight of God and ought to be so treated. This is the j'accuse that he hurls in the face of tyranny. Furthermore, he shows what the harvest of tyranny is: fear, hate, mendacity, incompetence, dullness, an all-embracing corruption...
...payoff for rising unemployment was supposed to be a tapering of inflation. That looked reasonable in August, when retail prices rose at an annual rate of only 2.4%. Last week, however, the Government reported that consumer prices in September jumped at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6%-almost equal to the fastest pace last winter. The rise, combined with a shrinkage in the average working week, ended a four-month increase in workers' purchasing power. Weekly spendable earnings, measured in 1957-59 dollars, dropped 83? in September...
...country's largest industrial firm. The Milan headquarters of the overdiversified chemical colossus was torn at the top by a management divided into two hostile camps-representatives of the government's substantial interest and champions of private investors (including the Agnelli and Pirelli families)-which held equal stakes. Directors had hoped that the appointment of Merzagora, 71, would keep both factions in balance and allay fears that the state was aiming for an outright takeover...