Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such material fails to take into consideration the vast efforts and resources this country put into burning the scars of deprivation and inequality into millions of its citizens. The doors of opportunity were never open to any appreciable number of minority group people. To suggest that all things are equal and the same with various groups is nothing less than intellectual dishonesty...
...ONLY BRIGHT SPOT in the results of the Massachusetts ballot questions was the passage of the state Equal Rights Amendment. Its approval adds a long overdue clause to the state constitution that bars discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion or national origin. The Massachusetts success of a state ERA reverses a pattern of ERA rejection set last year and has renewed efforts to approve the national...
...chief policymaking body, and use its members as his principal advisers. He has promised there would be no palace guard in the White House, no high chamberlain with the powers that H.R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig had under Richard Nixon. Instead, Carter would give three or four senior aides equal rank and, along with his Cabinet, equal access...
...Little. One reason for thinking so is that, just as First Women's was opening in New York a year ago, the Federal Reserve Board spelled out rules that all banks must follow to comply with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. If those rules are vigorously enforced, no bank will be able to discriminate against-or in favor of-women. In that case, many women may prefer the efficiency and wide range of services provided by the big established banks. Whether or not they are too little, the women's banks may be too late...
...only progressive legislation that passed was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and even that had some problems. But when the final tallies were in, the ERA had passed by a three-to-two margin...