Word: equalization
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...universities especially people and to forget that good thoughts are not equal to actions," he adds...
Foale, however, had a handy way to figure it out. If he held up his thumb at arm's length, he could blot out a patch of sky equal to about 1 1/2[degrees] of arc--a point of reference he could use, along with his watch, to determine how fast a spacecraft was moving. Foale swam over to the window, spent a few minutes watching stars come and go behind his thumb, and swam back to Tsibliyev and Lazutkin. "Tell them we're moving one degree per second," he said...
...work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite so enchanting a subject as either the joie de vivre of L'Allegro or the melancholic beauty of Il Penseroso. Nor could any claim that Jennens' verse stands quite equal to the Milton it seeks to reprove. Though the music is still lovely, the final reprimand of Il Moderato seems hardly the proper note on which to end a work largely hymning youthful exuberance and the contemplative life...
Separate sovereignty would lead to independence from the U.S. or free association, while statehood would provide a full and equal integration into the Union, according to a press release...
...critics are correct in that the SAT sometimes measures test-taking abilities more than intellectual ability. But the exam is not racially biased. It misjudges white, black and Hispanic high school students with an equal amount of imprecision. It is only discriminatory against those who do not speak and write standard English...