Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week 65,000 supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment, most of them women, retraced the steps of that historic march. This time the mood was festive: marching to spirited calliope music, the amendment's supporters joyfully waved banners and shouted slogans...
...hard to see how. During most of the twelve-year marriage, Maugham was hardly a husband. He was most frequently off with Gerald Haxton, a handsome young American he had met during World War I. Full of charm and liquor, in nearly equal measure, Haxton was difficult but necessary, an ideal complement to Maugham, whose lifelong stutter made him shy and withdrawn. In their travels through the Far East, Haxton would spend the night drinking with the local planters and lawyers and then repeat their tales to Willie, who would fashion them into stories. When his lover died of tuberculosis...
Minority leaders and federal affirmative-action officials saw this development as further support by the court for their efforts. In Portland, Ore., addressing an anxious convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, hailed the court's refusal to hear the AT&T case and strongly defended her agency's commitment to numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women. Said Norton: "We will not stop using them unless the court tells us directly to stop...
...court-Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell-and many observers expected them to reverse the trend set by the liberal Warren Court in the 1950s and '60s. Judicially activist, the Warren Court had frequently extended constitutional guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process to safeguard individual rights, which usually meant those of the poor, minorities and criminal defendants. With the arrival of the Nixon appointees, the court was less concerned with the rights of the poor, and its decisions became more conservative. Deferential to law-and-order needs, the court...
...Constitution divided the Government into three branches, but now there are really 3½-with the Federal Reserve System being the half. It has so much latitude in money and banking that it is equal in independence to the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. The seven Federal Reserve governors can be removed only "for cause," and none ever has been. Since they are appointed for 14-year terms, they can stay in Washington while Presidents come and go. Exempt from Civil Service rules, the board in Washington and the twelve regional Federal Reserve banks hire and fire whom they please...