Word: equal
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...spur ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the Cambridge City Council last night voted to boycott future meetings of the National League of Cities (NLC) held in states that have not approved...
...divorce, birth control and abortion presumably will go on doing so. Those who consider his refusal to ordain women a grossly mistaken policy began speaking up even while he was still touring the country. Indeed, groups of protesters dogged his two days in Washington. Read one typical banner: EQUAL RITES FOR WOMEN. Sister Lorraine Weires, a Dominican nun and ardent feminist who attended the Des Moines Mass dressed in black slacks, expressed hope that the Pope "is open to dialogue. He too will grow in consciousness." Perhaps. But there is little reason to expect that in the years ahead John...
...Catholics see evidence that the rest of the country is anti-Catholic if it seems to exclude ethnics - Italians, Irish, Poles and so on - from various opportunities. But that logic is also defective. One-third of the nation's Catholics are Hispanics. Does a prejudice against them equal a prejudice against Catholics? Not really. It is not specifically the Catholicism of ethnics that prompts the residual and now diminishing bigotry that they encounter; it is many things - culture, background, accent, even dress and neighborhoods - with religion mixed up among them...
...last week. Anyone who plunged in for a quick killing at the wrong moment got badly hurt. Small investors in gold also must pay a sales commission of 6% to 10% when buying the metal from banks, brokers or jewelers. In addition, there is often an equal-sized charge when reselling...
...valuable book for anyone who wishes to understand better the nuclear issues of our time." Directed at the "general reader," the book looms threatening because Mandelbaum has written a history that reads like your sixth grade civics textbook. Like your sixth grade civics textbook, it consists of equal parts myth and omission...