Word: egalitarian
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...campus rules were more than stringent. Access of "outsiders" to the houses was limited, a xenophobic move by supposedly egalitarian Harvard if ever there was one. The obsession with proper Harvard identification was so complete that one student who ran out without her burser's card couldn't get back into her Mather House room until nightfall...
Aquino's government has also instituted a version of Reaganomic tax reform. The top tax rate has been cut from 60% to 35%, while a broad range of special exemptions has been eliminated. In the same egalitarian vein, the country's sugar and coconut monopolies, long in the hands of Marcos cronies, have been disbanded. The world price paid for copra, or coconut meat, has increased 250% in the past year; thanks to trust busting, money that once went to monopolists now goes to farmers. In the effort to purge Marcos-style cronyism from the economy, scores of nonperforming public...
...LINE of intellectuals criticizing America's lack of artistic achievements, begining with Tocqueville, is long and distinguished. Social scientists and literary men and women have told us time and again that our practical-minded, egalitarian and materialistic majority cannot recognize high art, does not really want to do so, and inevitably dilutes great creative achievements for popular consumption...
Marphatia said his platform stressed "de-emphasizing the hierarchy, and making the Review a more egalitarian place...
...motive. With nearly 30% of those ages 18 to 25 unemployed, the French young increasingly view a college diploma as the surest passport, perhaps the only passport, to a good job and a secure future. Many felt that the Chirac proposals would undermine what is meant to be an egalitarian educational system by making it more difficult for some to enter college and thus eventually to win good-paying jobs. Said a student protest banner: EDUCATION FOR ALL, WITH OR WITHOUT MONEY...