Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...posthaste through the south of France, which is being ravaged by an epidemic of cholera, and eventually meets up with some of his comrades and fellow exiles. On the way, he takes refuge in the house of a young French woman (Juliette Binoche), who, with a poise and breeding equal to his own, treats him with unquestioning hospitality...
...major defects, it seems, are walking around inside the plant. That's what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in charges filed against Mitsubishi three weeks ago, in what may turn out to be the biggest federal sexual-harassment lawsuit in history. If the courts rule in favor of the EEOC, the total cost to Mitsubishi in compensatory and punitive damages could theoretically exceed $150 million. The company has also been hit with a class action on behalf of 29 women, which portrays the Mitsubishi plant as a misogynous mix of sexist Japanese management practice and American blue-collar, bully...
Four decades after his research helped decide the case that was supposed to change everything, perhaps Kenneth Clark still puts the issue most succinctly: "Talk about 'separate but equal,' " he says. "If they're going to be equal, why are they separate...
This sorry situation is, to be sure, mostly the fault of whites who pay lip service to equal rights but cut and run as soon as enough blacks move into their neighborhood. But many privileged African Americans are no more committed to public school integration than their white counterparts if it means sending their children to class with poor black kids. The main obstacle to integration is not race but class...
...grass-roots sentiments help propel the religious right's top priority for this year: to stomp out the possibility of civil marriages for gays. The furor was touched off in 1993 when the Hawaii supreme court ruled that denying marriage licenses to three gay couples appeared to violate the equal-protection clause of the state constitution. The case was remanded to a lower court, and is not expected to be thoroughly settled before 1998. But the religious right has been galvanized by fears that a gay marriage in Hawaii might, under the U.S. Constitution, have to be recognized in other...