Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Dream can be expressed with two words: equal opportunity. Sadly, this principle was subverted by more than 200 years of legal discrimination against blacks--from enslavement to Jim Crow and beyond. Their hopes for equal opportunity and upward mobility were rendered impossible...
...recent work titled The End of Racism, author Dinesh D'Souza went so far as to declare that discrimination has disappeared entirely in this country. Conservatives dismiss the wage gap by observing that equal employment opportunity need not yield equal monetary results. But their simple explanation is also inaccurate...
...This temporary restraining order has brought to a screeching halt eight years of planning and consultation," Felter said, pointing out that losses equal the salary of one faculty member of the University...
DOUGLAS WALLER got interested in reporting on covert operations seven years ago when he covered the U.S. invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf War. He quickly learned that ferreting out secrets calls for equal parts of patience and perseverance. It can take years to gain the trust of intelligence officers and months to verify the information they provide. Such was the case with this week's story about the CIA's efforts to block construction of an underground chemical-weapons plant in Libya. "This kind of story never gets dumped in your lap," says TIME's national-security correspondent...
...with Gingrich and the House. The Speaker, Senate Democrats say, was simply responding to the anti-immigration sentiment stirred up by Pat Buchanan and playing to angry voters in delegate-rich states such as California. "It was mostly politics," agrees Linda Chavez, of the conservative, pro-immigration Center for Equal Opportunity. If the bill emerges with the school amendment intact, President Clinton could be forced to veto a bill he desperately wants to sign. Gingrich, not to mention Bob Dole, wouldn't mind that...