Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal District Court Judge William M. Taylor, the Dallas school district was divided into six subdistricts. Two were relatively isolated from downtown Dallas: Oak Cliff, 98% black; and Seagoville, 85% white. In those two areas, school officials promised that even though the races were segregated, they would get "equal" education−a promise that obviously ran counter to the spirit of the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision...
Social Security is the largest transfer; last year's payments were $90.4 billion. In all, reckons Economist William Lawrence of Pace University, whose definition of the payments is broader, 1977 transfer payments were equal to 69% of all federal tax receipts...
Adlai Stevenson III, Senator from Illinois: "I just wonder if the Senate and other institutions of self-government are equal to the demands of Government in the late 20th century ... It is getting harder than ever to get anyone with sense to run for office...
...major educational journals have rated MIT's graduate economics instruction higher than Harvard's in "effectiveness of program." A recently-released report conducted in 1970 by the American Council of Education found Harvard equal in faculty quality to comparable universities, but second to MIT in the quality of education it offers...
Seabrook is a matter of life. If completed, the plant will be only 40 miles north of Harvard Square. But a report done for the Atomic Energy Commission concluded that a major accident in a plant half the size of Seabrook could contaminate an area of land equal in size to the state of Pennsylvania...