Word: egalitarians
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...make the most of his No. 2 role. As a result, Gore is rising above the usual stature of the office. Even Bill Kristol, Dan Quayle's former chief of staff, thinks Gore has "done pretty well. Maybe Democratic Vice Presidents get more clout, maybe because they're more egalitarian," he notes with a touch of irony. "And Gore is Clinton's generation...
...easy to say, on egalitarian grounds, people should do their own dirty work instead of hiring someone else. Not only is this a hopeless goal in an era when few households have a spouse that stays at home full time. It also overlooks the basic morality of free-market exchange: people work because they need the money, and denying them that opportunity in the name of equality is doing them no favor...
Donald L. Fanger, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, links rising grades to the "egalitarian" attitudes of the time...
...radical rationale of diversity, which is to redefine standards in a way that confirms that everyone is equal now. It turns out, ironically, that multiculturalists have less in common with liberals than they do with far-right conservatives: The only difference is that one is culturally egalitarian and the other is culturally elitist. Neither offers a vision of social progress...
...compelling issue here is not any purported inequity in funding between men's and women's sports. For all of its egalitarian inclinations, the staff cannot point to any convincing statistical evidence of any such unfairness...