Word: equal
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...Yorker named Joseph Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now centered in Utah where Smith's followers moved after being chased out of Midwestern towns they had tried to settle in. A fundamentalist religion, it places heavy emphasis on the Bible, but also gives equal power to the Book of Mormon, which church doctrine says is Smith's translation of golden tablets he found under the guidance of a holy messenger. The book tells the story of ancient inhabitants of America descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel and includes a story of Christ...
After exams, the swordsmen will begin their quest for the Ivy League crown in earnest. Marion feels that Princeton, Penn and Harvard have an equal shot at the title. "One lucky break or one bad day will do it," prophesized Marion...
...reluctance to deal with Kennedy's guilt, in a way, Reybold has written an elegant whitewash of the Chappaquiddick affair. He is too concerned with THE Kennedy, as he terms him at one point in the book, and incredibly insensitive to the moral questions raised by Chappaquiddick about equal justice and the power of certain people in American society. And what about Mary Jo Kopechne, left to drown? Her mother later asked bitterly whether Kennedy considered her a fish, to leave her overnight in a submerged car. It is a disturbing question, one Reybold never asks...
...free to sell their skills elsewhere. In the N.F.L. and the N.B.A., they can bargain with other teams-but there is a catch. If a man jumps to a new team in football, the new owners must compensate the old with a player or draft choice of equal value. If the teams cannot strike a deal, the commissioner has the power to set the terms himself. (Hence the name Rozelle rule, for Commissioner Pete Rozelle.) The N.B.A. has a similar, though unwritten, arrangement...
Harvard admits 1478 men and two women to the Class of 1980. "They wanted equal access and we gave it to 'em," chortles Jack Reardon '60, director of Admissions as he dresses for a squash game with L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions. "Yeah," says Jewett, snapping a towel at Reardon, "look at it this way: Radcliffe's loss is Pine Manor's gain, if you know what I mean...