Word: equal
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...most important of Arias' proposed "limited modifications" in Spain's 18-year-old constitution was the creation of a second chamber of the Cortes, Spain's Parliament. This would be a popularly elected lower house that would have equal power with a largely appointed upper chamber. Arias also promised to reform the electoral law that now allows only Franco's National Movement to exist as a political party. Arias carefully avoided using the word party, but most observers interpreted his speech to mean that moderate parties and possibly even a socialist coalition would eventually be permitted...
Doonesbury 's author acknowledges his predecessors with equal alacrity. He has been known to sneak a caricature of Snoopy into his early works, and Li'I Abner's creator says Trudeau once ran up to him and gushed, "I've just been introduced as the young Al Capp. Gee, that was the greatest compliment I ever...
...eleven-year-old Kansas schoolgirl who happened to be black. Halfway through his opinion, the Chief Justice asked a long, deceptively innocent question: "Does segregation of children in public schools, solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the mi nority group of equal education opportunities? " His brief answer: "We believe that it does...
...editor (Simon & Schuster, Atheneum) and sometime novelist (When the Bough Breaks, National Anthem), Richard Kluger has the special courage of the amateur: he is not afraid to be obvious. From the start, he argues, the Declaration of Independence was marred by a fundamental hypocrisy. All men were not created equal-if they happened to be black. More than 300 years after the introduction of slavery, nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Brown decision belatedly acknowledged this cruelly corrupting double standard. It focused on the nation's most sensitive testing ground of equality-the public schools. By asking...
...inhumanly treated-was doing them no favor. Cannily mocking social scientists, he noted that "much of what is handed around under the name of social science is an effort on the part of the scientist to rationalize his own preconceptions." He bolstered his thesis by examining the separate but equal doctrine that had received numerous court approvals. Scholastic separation of the races, Davis added, had "been so often and so pointedly declared by the highest authorities that it should no longer be regarded as open to debate . . . only an excess of zeal can explain the present challenge...