Word: equal
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...toughest job: finding work for the 750,000 workers who enter the job market each year. Though per capita income is more than $1,200 a year, millions live on the fringe of the cash economy. Figures are vague, but estimates of unemployment run upwards of 25%; an equal number scrounge by on occasional day labor. "The best way to distribute the wealth," López Portillo told campaign supporters, "is to create more sources of work." Doing that will be difficult. The investment-public and private -needed just to employ new job-seekers is estimated at $10 billion...
...patrolman to test his theories. Cops virtually to a man believe, with Boston P.B.A. Chairman Chester Broderick, that "we're the most discriminated-against minority in the country." Says Chicago Police Officer Ronald Green: "Some people just don't seem to realize that we are just as equal as they are-that we have rights too." Green's rage has a specific source: he was accused of taking a bribe by a motorist he had stopped. Green has become something of a folk hero among cops because, imitating the militancy of civil rights groups, he sued...
...moving Commencement up a week would let undergraduates join the summer job market earlier, so they can compete on a more equal basis with students from schools that...
...elections in which money becomes a decisive factor are referenda, because there are no candidates involved who might sway voters through their own personal appeal. In contests over Equal Rights Amendments, handgun bans, bottle bills, or nuclear power limitations, voter "education" is the key. The side that can mount the most effective advertising campaign is usually the side that wins...
...solar energy for power production without filling huge tracts of land with reflectors or photovoltaic cells. Even legal technicalities must be resolved before use of solar energy can become practical. A study by Arthur D. Little suggests that the courts might be required to decide whether everyone has an equal right to sunlight, a question that will certainly arise the first time someone tries to put up a building that casts a shadow on a neighbor's solar collector...