Word: egalitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draft would spread money so thin that needed scholarships and technical training would be limited. The universal draft may be an egalitarian tool, but it eliminates a very pragmatic tool to provide money, training, and scholarships for those who need...
...necessarily a lack of rules. Calling the boss by his first name, which takes some effort, does not mean that he and the office boy are equals. Indeed, equality is both the great illusion and the great reality of America. The immigrant is slow to understand that below the egalitarian surface there are hierarchies and tribes, proper and improper addresses, great names and lowly names, old money looking down on new money, older immigrants looking down on newer -- a topography to which there are very few maps...
...basis of Kilson's argument is the assertion that "excessive ethnocentric behavior is dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks...in American society," as he wrote in his first of three letters...
...This is not an egalitarian society," he adds. "I mean, just look at which cars get ticketed. Policemen see little economy cars and know that their owners will be able to pay the parking ticket. But I mean, people look at the car and know it's a gas-guzzler and feel...
Murdoch, however, does not practice an egalitarian management style. Despite pledges made to Parliament that he would respect the editorial independence of the Times, Murdoch forced out Editor Harold Evans after a year of editorial and budgetary wrangling. He indulges a love for details, whether it is writing a headline for the Post or keeping in constant touch with his worldwide holdings by telephone. As a boss, he can be emotional, impulsive and demanding. "Murdoch runs a Byzantine court," says a former Sun-Times executive. "There is only one decision maker...