Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petitions that failed to leave the sub-committee level would have required condominium owners to pay evicted tenants relocation benefits equal to 3 per cent of the condominium's value; to pay such benefits to tenants 62 years or older; to prohibit evictions that would facilitate the conversion of apartments into condominiums; to prohibit such evictions of tenants 62 years or older; or to grant four month immediate stays to all tenants being evicted for conversions...
...Special Day is not always equal to the gifts of its star, but it is an elegantly designed film that offers original insights into a historical chapter that has already been examined exhaustively by such Italian directors as Wertmuller, Bertolucci and Visconti. Essentially a two-character drama, the movie is set on the May day in 1938 when all of Rome turned out to rally for Hitler. Loren and her most durable costar, Marcello Mastroianni, play the only tenants of a cavernous apartment building who remain at home during the festivities. Antonietta, an ignorant working-class housewife, has stayed behind...
There are, in addition, a good many arrogantly successful business types who fit firmly the wealthy alumnus stereotype that Harvard officials often claim no longer holds. According to alumni office polls, graduates approve wholeheartedly of today's Harvard--equal access admissions notwithstanding--but the dark wood paneling and a shot of Chivas bring out the more conservative opinions at these gatherings. These men freely castigate today's "youth," unaware of how much they share with the numerous pre-corporate leaders looking over business school catalogues in undergraduate dorms nearby...
Opponents of pre-assignment see it only as a method to disguise real differences between the Houses. "What we really should be doing, instead of pre-assignment, is making each House equal--not identical, but equal in quality. Then you wouldn't need pre-assignment. Pre-assignment is like saying 'If you're going to complain about the differences between Houses, we'll make it so that there's nothing you can complain about. But people will still see the differences,"' Prewitt says...
...agreed upon in a previous contract, employees would recieve a cost of living raise equal to 40 per cent of the federal government's cost of living standard. Donald M. Stevens, director of employee relations at Yale and spokesman for the bargaining committee said this would fall between 16 and 24 per cent while Sirabella said it would be between 11 and 17 per cent...