Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between 1955 and '61, Jasper Johns invented most of his principal motifs: the targets, the stenciled words and numbers, the rulers, the fragments of human anatomy, the American map, the American flag. No period in his later work would equal this one for vitality and daring. A work like White Flag, 1955, has lost the aura of scandal that clung to it when it was first seen. Instead it has moved into the company of, say, Pollock's Lavender Mist as one of the classics of American modernism: a work of such authority, intelligence and opulent technical skill...
Masiewicki said he expects the proportion of women in the business professions eventually to equal the ratio of men to women in the general population...
Colvin: They have the right to compete. The right to equal competition...
...though the Burger Court is widely regarded as conservative, the general tide of relevant court opinions runs against Bakke. The court has tended to take a flexible view of the equal-protection clause, recognizing that extraordinary steps must occasionally be taken to enforce the basic point of the 14th Amendment: protecting blacks. Even racial quotas have sometimes been authorized to remedy proven discrimination...
...Bakke case raises questions that are exquisitely complicated. What is the meaning of equal opportunity? How much help should any person or race receive from the Government to atone for past disadvantage? Can any citizen be held back so that others can catch up? And are the courts best fitted to settle these questions? No matter how the Supreme Court answers, Bakke will leave many problems still to be resolved through the creativity and good will of a society committed to equality for all its citizens...