Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current crop of U.S. undergraduates, who were just toddlers in the late '60s and early '70s, grew up during a time when the social gains of those years were under attack. "They have been raised in an era when equal opportunity has been questioned," says Albert Camarillo, chairman of a Stanford University committee on minority concerns. "They have heard people ask if we have done too much for minorities." Others blame the Reagan Administration's lax enforcement of civil rights laws for making prejudice socially acceptable. "The Reagan years provided a context that made people feel more comfortable expressing intolerance...
...complaint of the bias against disadvantaged students is transparently cynical. This committment to equal opportunity for students of all socioeconomic background extends only to athletes. What coach has ever offered to share athletic slush funds with a brilliant, poverty stricken klutz...
...group's leader even explicitly equates animal life with human life. Alex Pacheco, chairman of PETA, was recently quoted as saying, "We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child, because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence upon others...
...burdens created by today's shortfalls are borne unevenly. The Soviet elite has always had access to luxury shops, and even many ordinary Soviets buy groceries through factory and office outlets that offer a wider selection than is available in state stores. But not all rubles are created equal: a top Soviet bureaucrat can buy a food package that may include canned crab, high-quality cheese, imported hard salami and lean meat. For a factory worker, the package would more likely contain chicken, less desirable cheese, domestic sausage and canned fish. Even some of the artful dodges developed by resourceful...
Here we go again. Exploiting white America's ignorance of historic racial oppression, Hollywood casts a spotlight on the rich but neglected story of the black struggle for equal rights. As has happened with every popular work on the subject, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots, Mississippi Burning evokes a gasp of horrified discovery from many whites who act as if they are learning about the viciousness of slavery and segregation for the very first time. Unfortunately, the film does little to deepen the knowledge of its audience. Though its producers say the movie is fictional, they so artfully...