Word: egalitarian
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...should not pose any conceptual difficulties for any loyal Harvard alum, fictional or otherwise. Penultimate limon or not, that mixed eight functioned as one smooth unit of eight athletes rowing their guts out together. Determination, pain, (and possibly sheer stupidity) know no sexual boundaries. Crew may also be more egalitarian than most sports in that efficiency, technical smoothness, and mental toughness can count as much as brute strength. The men in the boat trusted and respected the ability and seriousness of the Radcliffe rowers. In this spirit they rowed so well that they made it easy for the women...
...bright period for advancements in egalitarian policy," Skocpol said...
While Republicans grinned and snickered, Good Soldier O'Neill defended the White House bill as another step toward an egalitarian America, but he did not have his heart in his speech. He actually sounded as though he were apologizing for the President, and he pointedly told the White House that he would not "twist any wrists" on behalf of the bill. Referring to the fact that Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and other Administration officials were still hotly lobbying for the measure even as the bells summoned Congressmen to their seats, Illinois Republican John Anderson castigated the "late-blooming...
...amendment would undo almost a decade of egalitarian tax reform. The basic rule on capital gains has long been, and still is, that only half of them are subject to income tax; until 1969, the maximum tax on capital gains was 25%. But beginning in 1970, liberals who considered that tax rate to be an undue favor to the rich raised the maximum tax on the biggest capital gams reaped by individuals to 49.1%,* by far the highest rate in the industrial world; the top rate on corporate capital gains is 30%. Steiger would set the clock back to 1969?...
...Egalitarian principles aside, a little bit of this (and Auden printed a lot) goes a long, weary...