Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, it was the California Supreme Court, long regarded as perhaps the most liberal and forward-looking in the country, that upheld Bakke in a decisive 6-to-l opinion. Basing its decision on a rather literal reading of the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law, the California court stated that the use of race as a criterion in any official program calls for judicial "strict scrutiny." Unless a "compelling state interest" can be demonstrated and there are no viable, nonracial alternative methods available, the use of race is forbidden. Here, the court ruled that the university...
...question is raised, if the homosexuals here respect themselves and recognize their fundamental right to be homosexual, then why are there so many in the closet? The answers to this would probably equal the number responding. One would fear the reaction from our conservative traditional colony here. Another is merely too shy. But I feel that a problem inherent to Harvard would frequently occur as a reason: students at this school seem to mark off success and worthiness by distinctiveness of professional degree, and, even more importantly, by size of annual income. In this environment of good business thinkers, where...
Therefore we strongly support efforts in Congress to raise the minimum permissable age of mandatory retirement, in hope that mandatory retirement will be eliminated altogether. American society is badly in need of reforms to provide equal opportunity for women and minorities. But the need for broad reform should not be grounds for continued discrimination against the elderly. It is unclear whether the passage of the bill now in Congress will cripple attempts to implement reforms favoring opportunities for women and minorities, but it is clear that a continuation of mandatory retirement will limit the opportunities of the nation's elderly...
...possessed a nuclear stockpile of 8000 megatons (million tons of dynamite equivalent), according to Ruth Sivard, the former chief economist of the Arms Control Disarmament Agency. That is equal to 615,385 Hiroshima bombs. When one considers that the rest of the planet possesses another 8000 megatons, one realizes that human history has clearly moved into the age of overkill...
...damaging impact of militarism in the domestic sector is compounded by the fact that military spending industries are capital-intensive; military spending therefore creates fewer jobs than an equal amount of spending in the civilian sector. Additionally, armaments production is disproportionately high-skilled. Consequently, while a defense contract can in the short run boost a sagging local economy, in the long run it exacerbates both inflation and unemployment...