Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four years the number of corporate PACs has risen from 89 to 776. They contributed some $8 million to congressional candidates, about 15% of their total campaign receipts. The business groups' spending was equal to that of the 263 PACs operated by labor unions. By 1980, campaign fund-raising experts expect corporations to field about 1,000 PACs and greatly increase their spending...
There are at least 200 such professional convention consultants in private practice, about an equal number on the staffs of major associations. They will write speeches, build exhibits, put on skits with bona fide Equity actors, order food and drink, bribe hotel employees to be especially solicitous, arrange side-trips for spouses?or all of the above, typically for 10% of the meeting's cost. There are also convention specialists on the staffs of major.hotels who, like their counterparts in municipal convention bureaus, try to sell gregarious groups into meeting chez...
Student members of the CRR say that equal student and faculty representation is the most important of the reforms...
...amendments accepted by the Faculty Council establish an equal ratio between students and faculty on the committee, bar legal counsel at hearings before the CRR, and guarantee the right to petition to release transcripts of any CRR hearing...
...want to negate the progress occurring in South Africa? Robert Lenzner of The Boston Globe (Dec. 2, 1978, page 14) reports that a study done by the Arthur D. Little consulting company of Cambridge shows that 75 percent of the 81 corporations who signed equal employment pledges this year have ended discrimination. Mr. Lenzner added that medical and insurance benefits for blacks have improved, to the point of equality in most cases. The Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 4, 1978, page 32) said in an editorial that South Africa's new minister for black affairs, Pieter Koornhof, has made "no less...