Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's own persuasiveness last week. In earnest appearances before restive groups of women, blacks and Latinos, Carter promised each that they would be visibly represented at high levels in his campaign and in the Government he hopes to organize. He pledged all-out support of the Equal Rights Amendment and assured women that each key party committee would have at least a 50% female membership...
...many condemnations of the South African government's policies of separate but equal development, or apartheid, Dr. Kissinger is giving moral support to the many subversive terrorists who want J. Vorster and Ian Smith...
During the early 1970s, executives of Rohr, primarily an aerospace subcontractor, boasted that they would help rebuild the nation's surface transportation system. They planned futuristic trains, air cushions and people-movers (transmission belts carrying people rather than baggage). With equal enthusiasm, they spoke of new vistas in space communications and automated mail systems. It added up to a grand adventure into uncharted terrain-a bit too grand...
...hears during our Bicentennial celebration is: Will America be around to salute her Tercentennial? In offering answers and observations, Establishment journalists and editorialists point out that for America to survive for another one hundred years, hunger must be alleviated, the economy bettered, the environment cleaned, cooperation among nations increased, equal treatment for men, women, and children observed, and on and on with more drivel masquerading as true solutions...
...recognize what he has achieved during his 44 years with the N.A.A.C.P. In an interview with TIME before his surprise speech, Wilkins reminisced about the 1954 decision by the Supreme Court in Brown v. the Board of Education as the "final crowning glory which said that separate but equal was no more." But he says that today the issue of busing is being used to repeal the effects of the court's decision. "If you freeze the neighborhood school patterns that are present, you go straight back to Plessy v. Ferguson [the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that established...