Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific states, whose principal exports include cocoa, coffee, copra and cotton. If one of those countries' commodity earnings drop below an established minimum, it can draw an amount equal to the shortfall from the fund; when the commodity earnings recover, the fund is repaid...
...shirts and Peterbilt trailer-truck caps, they revel in the dust and noise. For some, off-road racing is an egalitarian country gathering. "My husband is a mechanic and I'm just a small-town housewife," says Loretta Pipkin from El Centre, Calif. "But out here everyone is equal...
...inmates' rights-and then only after he spent a night in a cell. He took 15 months to consider evidence in a suit brought against the School Committee before ruling, in June 1974, that black children in Boston have been systematically deprived of their constitutional right to an equal education. Ever since, in a series of increasingly tough orders that culminated last week with his placing South Boston High in federal receivership, he has determinedly moved toward restoring that right. Says a former law partner: "He knows what he thinks the law says and will go down the line...
...Christiane Joost-Gaugier are charging Tufts with a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which says that any person who feels unfairly dealt with "by an employer because of race, color, religion, national origin or sex" has the right to file charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC...
...must these statements and the position of those who oppose ordination. This is not a matter of sexism, but of theology. The Bible as clearly holds to the full dignity and humanity of women. St. Paul was himself quite revolutionary in his conception of women as full and equal human beings before God. But St. Paul cannot, as many would have us believe, be simply thrown out as addressing, and limited by, a cultural context. He sees male-female relations in society, the family, and the church in a particular God-ordained order that bestows dignity on all (I Corinthians...