Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical personality. But excitement and exuberance are not the only qualities needed by a conductor. He must know the repertoire and how to exact from the players the precision demanded by the scores. Rostropovich is the master of the grand gesture, but the ensemble results are not yet equal to his expansiveness on the podium...
Time is running out for the Equal Rights Amendment, which would guarantee legal equality for both sexes...
...appointment is for three years-at an annual salary equal to his Chloride $93,000-and government officials make it clear that they regard those three years as giving Edwardes a "last chance" to save the company...
...drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and its subsequent application. Berger's conclusion: virtually every major judicial advance of the past quarter-century, from desegregation to reapportionment, was based on unconstitutional usurpation of power by the courts and their misuse of the vague due process and equal protection guarantees of the 14th Amendment...
...Berger's rigid interpretation, the post-Civil War Congress was dominated by "Negrophobia"; it was willing to extend to blacks rudimentary civil rights, such as equal punishment for crimes and the right to own property, but did not intend the 14th Amendment to grant them equal access to voting booths, schools, juries or jobs. Thus in Berger's accounting, when Congress enacted the provision including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce...