Word: equal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Linda J. Sax of the Higher Education Institute predicts that "all things held equal, a middle income student [will] in all likelihood be drawn away" from Harvard in the face of competitive offers from other schools...
...riots are ample evidence. The incidence of communal violence has actually gone down in the states where Hindu nationalism has replaced the hypocritical "secularism" of Congress. This is because "Hindutva," while being a more Hindu-centric view, most definitely does not entail oppression of minorities but rather just and equal treatment of all citizens irrespective of religion. Moreover, democracy will force Hindu nationalism to assume a more moderate, centrist stance as it gains power...
...failing to understand the historical reality of Congress rule and the platform of equal treatment for all citizens espoused by the BJP, Bhatia has presented a distorted caricature of the Indian political landscape. AKILESH PALANISAMY '98 March...
...Rongji's job description when he is appointed premier during China's annual legislative session, which begins Thursday, may sound like cruel and unusual punishment, but Zhu's résumé might just be equal to the challenge. Credited with everything from taming inflation in three years to being the driving force behind Shanghai's economic miracle, Zhu is widely admired in the West as a whip-cracking manager open to innovation, and as a man of his word...
...novelist's other recurrent theme is race. But as a white American writing about blacks, a trick managed by Faulkner and few others, Banks seems too carefully respectful, an earnest '60s liberal. When Owen Brown realizes that he regards a black farmer as an equal but not wholeheartedly as a friend, his self-conscious queasiness seems oddly modern. Like Owen, the author has often been confounded by his good intentions. When Bob Dubois migrates to Florida in Continental Drift and has a love affair with a beautiful black woman, Banks sets aside his gritty naturalism, and that...