Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." Despite cool weather and gray, overcast skies that occasionally exploded in rainstorms, it was a week of exuberant festivity, offering the kind of stately pageantry that no other nation in the world can equal. Silver trumpets blared fanfares, batteries of cannon fired multigun salutes, Union Jacks bedecked homes and shops throughout Britain...
...designed to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. But no clause in the U.S. Constitution guarantees any special safeguards to persons attracted to their own sex; gays are usually dependent entirely on protection supplied by legislatures or granted by changes in public mores. Even the embattled Equal Rights Amendment, if approved, would protect only against discrimination by sex, not sexual preference. And as last week's Miami referendum demonstrates, gaining popular approval for gay-rights-equality laws promises to be a long, perhaps impossible fight...
...Separate but equal" became the issue last fall when Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, allowed her Currier House seminar on women's issues in biology to restrict itself to women students...
Isaac subsequently filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in March 1976 charging that the University had refused to give him tenure on the basis of race and nationality. "I decided to go to court because of the broken promises, the irregular procedures and the deep-seated discriminatory manner in which the department and I have been treated," Isaac says, adding he believes that he was denied tenure because of a "behind-the-scenes attempt to not hire people wholly within the department." Isaac says that he does not object to the concept of joint tenure appointments...
Throughout her career, Jordan has taken strong positions on civil rights, but has consistently argued that blacks must stay within the legal political system in their struggle for equal opportunities...