Word: equalizing
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Unlike most of his former colleagues, Dieter has found work -- this time as a regular policeman in East Berlin. He has started walking a beat, and earns a monthly wage of 1,600 East German marks, which is worth about $330 in buying power and is almost equal to his Stasi pay. (A few former agents have even found employment as policemen in West Germany.) But Dieter has lost a packet of coveted perks, among them paid vacations at choice resorts along the Baltic coast. Because the Stasis were in a special category set apart from the typical East German...
...open the window, and then she heard the whooshing sound of CFCs venting into the atmosphere. Draper raised such a fuss with the Environmental Protection Agency, the newspapers and local and state officials that GE agreed to offset the CFC discharges in its compressor- replacement program by recapturing an equal amount elsewhere in its operations. Draper has since stalked the halls of Congress urging more controls on CFCs and has become one of Maryland's environmental watchdogs, taking everything from reforestation to recycling before the general assembly...
BGLAD week provides a chance for Harvard students, both gay and straight, to learn about these obstacles facing gays and lesbians in their struggle for acceptance and equal opportunity. More than that, it is an opportunity to realize that promoting tolerance of gays and lesbians is good...
...that have been signed between the U.S. and Japan because they only are conceived after great pressure has been applied and frequently before global summit-conferences in order to reduce world-wide media attention on Japan. For those nations whose trade policies are based on free trade and allow equal access to their markets, we must maintain trade relations based on reciprocity. For those such as Japan, we must move to a policy of "managed trade" guided by an industrial policy that would set quotas on Japanese imports. William E. Sharp, Jr. Graduate School of Education...
...Lauren-infested affair but rather one where the couch was acrylic and the drink Diet Coke is stretched to five pages. A lunch interview with Philippe de Montebello is a struggle to win his admiration. When she drops a name he recognizes, she writes, "Once again we are on equal ground." Equal ground with the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? So eager for approval, she becomes the journalistic equivalent of Sally Field at the Academy Awards trilling "You like me. You really like...