Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hardly cared about such atrocities during the years when Washington's Middle East policy dictated accommodating Saddam. So when the President says Amnesty's report has "really made an impression on me," he is reacting in a new context. Had he been applying a consistent human-rights standard all along, he would have been just as exercised about last year's Amnesty report on Iraq, and perhaps the Administration would have supported the sanctions some Congressmen were urging before Saddam's brutality spilled beyond Iraq's borders...
Even if they are not planning to sell, homeowners feel poorer when values drop. "The price of your house was your standard of value in the 1970s," says Kathryn Eickhoff, president of her own economics-research firm in New York. "You couldn't make money in the stock market, but you knew your house would go up in value. But now that confidence is being tested, and people feel vulnerable...
Soundest Dietary Restriction The 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act mandates standard definitions of such terms as light and lowfat, bans misleading claims and requires food producers to list the amount of dietary fiber and saturated fat in raw seafood, fruit and vegetables as well as on most packaged-goods labels...
...reparations? First, because they are targeted precisely at those who deserve them. By now affirmative action has grown to include preferential treatment for Hispanics, women, the handicapped and an ever-expanding list of favored groups. This is absurd. By what moral standard should, say, a Marielito, already once rescued by America, enjoy a preference over, say, an Italian-American vet or an Irish cop? A Richmond ordinance struck down two years ago by the Supreme Court assigned 30% of city subcontracts to firms owned by minorities, defined as "Blacks, Spanish-speaking ((citizens)), Orientals, Indians, Eskimos or Aleuts." Richmond, capital...
...result, they would be able to integrate their product lines rather than face the dilemma of having to eliminate a system. But more important for AT&T, the addition of NCR would enhance the company's position in its ongoing battle with IBM to establish Unix as the industry standard. Both companies want to replace the technically outdated standard known as DOS. IBM's entry, called OS/2, appears to be the stronger contender. While Unix has been gaining market share, AT&T lacks the credible , machines to exploit the system's rising popularity. Instead, other computer makers using Unix, including...