Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates passed 25 resolutions, forming a plan of action for achieving women's full rights and equality. The resolutions ranged from the arts and humanities to welfare reform and the problems of minority women, to abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. The delegates had answered the old question "What do women want?" When the conference ended in a chorus of We Shall Go Forth, there was little doubt that they would...
...President claimed credit for having already hired a lot of women: "More than 21% of my appointments within the White House and the Executive Branch have been women, an alltime high for any Administration." Beyond that, he stressed Administration concern for such first steps as passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, the enforcement of all civil rights laws and the development of improved statistical information concerning women. He asked Congress to pass a number of pending bills related to the Houston plan, but his message had little impact on a Congress already concerned with the ending of the session ("What...
...equal world," Baldrige believes, the general operating principles are efficiency, kindness and elementary good sense. "Whoever happens to be in the lead opens the door and holds it for the other," she writes. "Whoever first sees the taxi hails it. People emerge from an elevator in a logical procession, the front people off first, the people in the back off last. Each of us puts on his or her own coat; however, anyone who sees someone else struggling to get into a coat lends a helping hand ... A person picks up a check in the coffee shop or a restaurant...
...most of the excesses that are drawing fire were born in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, when the focus turned from industry control to social reform and a large number of new bureaus were formed, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Consumer Product Safety Commission...
...entire mythical world, all these things, yes. Life's dailiness seems somehow inappropriate to such a man as it is to most legendary artists. But his last 14 years are about to receive intense scrutiny by scholars, Wagner lovers and Wagner loathers-who seem to exist in equal numbers -for they were recorded in torrential detail by his second wife Cosima in her diary...