Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates for the football squad are Valpey's main plan for next week. "I will call a closed meeting for football players next Friday evening for football players next Friday evening in the Varsity Club," he added, "and, as for as I'm concerned, everyone is starting off on equal terms...
...were hardly encouraging deeds or words. But in Nanking, hard-pressed Nationalists were ready to settle for what they could get. Small as the sum was, it would be enough to cover China's current dollar deficit. By providing new funds for relief imports, it would free an equal amount of China's own assets for the purchase of essential military supplies...
...enthusiastic about getting in up to their necks. At present, 17,000 of Britain's 21,000 general practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes (40% on the average) from the panel; the jam comes from private patients...
...there are too many signs that the present rent policy is haphazard. Cases of rent discrepancies exist in every House and dormitory. The same rents, for instance, are charged for rooms that are obviously far from equal in desirability. Even worse, the poorer room is sometimes more expensive. If this unfair situation is not cleared up by fall, the rent increase will only add to its injustice...
...Extend to all U.N. members equal rights to use of the Panama Canal...