Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement. In another letter released last week, Sadat argued that East Jerusalem should be under Arab sovereignty, that all of the city's holy places should be controlled by their respective religious groups and that the essential functions of the city should be administered by a municipal council with equal numbers of Arab and Israeli members. "In this way," said Sadat, "the city shall be undivided." In Begin's letter, he uncompromisingly restated he Israeli position that "Jerusalem is one city indivisible, the capital of the state of Israel." Finally, Carter's letter asserted that the U.S. viewpoint, unchanged since...
Wanda: Candace West of Florida State and Don Zimmerman of the University of California at Santa Barbara. They taped a bunch of private conversations, and guess what they found. When two men or two women are talking, interruptions are about equal. But when a man talks to a woman, he makes 96% of the interruptions. They think it's a dominance trick men aren't even aware...
...HEIGHT of the most severe apartment shortage in recent times in Cambridge, Harvard has altered the market status of hundreds of cheap, rent-controlled apartments, making access to these apartments more difficult for Cambridge residents. This action contradicts a long-standing Harvard policy of allowing non-affiliated Cambridge residents equal access to apartments that Harvard removes from the market by purchasing...
...taken steps against apartheid. Colgate-Palmolive, which has a plant near Johannesburg, assumed most of the costs of operating a black township school in a neighboring community to ensure higher educational standards for nonwhites than in government-run schools. While a very few firms, notably IBM, have long had equal-pay-for-equal-work policies, many more companies have lately been moving to redress a particular grievance of blacks: a system of bonuses that traditionally allowed whites to earn about three or four times as much as blacks in similar jobs. Goodyear undertook a two-year effort to eliminate bonuses...
...Sullivan Code: total desegregation of eating, work and toilet facilities in plants; equal employment opportunities; comparable pay for all employees in the same jobs; development of apprentice and management trainee programs for nonwhites; promotion of blacks and coloreds to higher posts; improvement of employees' living conditions; and support for unionization efforts by nonwhites...