Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain to be destructive of freedom ... If socialism were to become permanently identified with the kind of life imposed after 1945 on Eastern Europe, few sane people would want it." Quite apart from Eastern Europe, any attempt to achieve egalitarianism poses a threat to freedom. Since people are not equal in ability, the naturally gifted minority cannot be expected to voluntarily forfeit the extra rewards earned by its efforts...
...while the effort to revitalize the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) is a commendable one, Carter's hyperbolic labeling of it as "one of the most important actions to improve civil rights in the last decade" gives reason for pause. Though he later modified this statement, it indicates a narrow view of the potential of creative civil rights legislation. Perceiving a bureaucratic adjustment of this kind as "major" leaves little room for the truly important civil rights reforms still left undone...
However, he still believes in the essential soundness of the system. The success of Jimmy Carter, who lacked fame, money and established political support at the outset of the campaign, proves this point, Witcover argues. "If a prime purpose of the political system is to give all contenders an equal chance to achieve leadership, then the system worked without question in 1976," he writes...
Yannatos and the orchestra appeared best in Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, the last work of the concert. The Eighth Symphony is in many respects the equal of Dvorak's more celebrated New World Symphony, which he wrote later. It suggests the many faces of Czech culture as Dvorak saw them--pastoral joy, Bohemian calm, and general happiness--all of which are captured in the work. The orchestra handled the transitions between these moods well, and the piece had more coherence and unity than the Debussy or Saint-Saens. In the first movement, the powerful horns and cellos, the cheerful forte...
...decision, signaled a go-ahead to exploit acreage near the Baltimore Canyon, which lies 50 to 90 miles off Atlantic City, N.J. The most optimistic geologists estimate that this tract contains up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. That would be equal to all the oil and gas now drilled in the U.S. in six months...