Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institution of equal and fair employment practices for all employees. This would include race-blind hiring practices...
...deductions for retirement benefits or smaller payments once they have started collecting. Last week the Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 2, that charging women more than men to participate in a pension plan violates a congressional ban on sex discrimination. In a decision hailed as a victory for the equal rights movement, the court stated that employers may no longer exact a larger contribution from women than from men. By paying the same rate, the court acknowledged, men will be subsidizing women to some extent; in the U.S., life expectancy at birth for males is only 69 years...
...expense of men." At least for the time being, the court's ruling is limited to contributory pension plans−most of which are for public employees−in which women make a greater contribution. The ruling does not yet invalidate plans in which the contributions are equal but not the benefits...
...South Carolina's ex-U.S. Senator Robert Barnwell Rhett saw the future and found it tolerable. By the year 2000, he prophesied, the South would have "established an empire and wrought out a civilization that has never been equaled or surpassed−a civilization teeming with orators, poets, philosophers, statesmen and historians equal to those of Greece and Rome." Five years later the Confederacy was dead. The only thing the South never lost was its capacity to provoke intoxicated visions and literary hyperbole...
...think I feel relatively confident," Rothstein said yesterday. "Quinsigamond is a weird lake--there can be a head wind in the middle where the top seeds are, while the rest is flat, calm water. In equal conditions we're going to be hard to beat. We're psyched, and we're still getting faster--I think...