Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mickey Sabbath, is a randy 64) with some of the same comic sexual energy that set readers goggling in Portnoy's Complaint. Sabbath is an ex-puppeteer whose present occupation is perfecting his scabrous personality. As he searches his disorderly past for meaning, largely without success, he is an equal-opportunity boor, richly offensive to women, men, Jews and Gentiles. Yet the result is a brilliantly written character, rampaging through a novel about facing death in a lonely...
...more objective, favor a linear scale which would not contain a gap between an A- and B+. "I certainly don't think we need three grades between an A and a B," says James E. Davis, lecturer on chemistry and instructor of Chemistry 5. "I think there should be equal spacing between A- and a B+. And an easy way to make each of them equal is to go by .3 increments...
...University's obligation to keep common rooms and dining halls devoid of non-secular decorations is just as clear as the case for classrooms. All students have equal access to these areas and should not have to confront religious symbolism when using them. The presence of one group's symbols in a junior common room, for example, might discourage another group from having its meetings there. That is not what common rooms...
...idea of equal representation of religions often appears to counter our argument. Some contest that having the emblems of all religions will make everyone feel equally comfortable. This idea is flawed in principle and in practice...
Spending limits being considered are $200, $100 and $50. An extremely low limit would probably be coupled with an "equalized campaigning" clause that would force all candidates to campaign in a similar way, through equal pestering, door dropping and other methods...