Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard is also trying to end discrimination against homeless people on University property. Several years ago, the University signed an agreement with homeless activates ensuring equal access to facilities, said Beth A. Wald, a vice president at the Harvard Real Estate office...
...side is a group of women athletes demanding equal opportunity. On the other, an Ivy League University insists equal opportunity is exactly what it is giving. At stake, the definition of sexual discrimination and equal opportunity in an era where "gender" is a loaded word...
...District Court in a class action sexual discrimination suit brought against Brown University in April 1992. The women athletes contest Brown's compliance to Title IX, a 1972 federal law prohibiting gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. In particular, the law specifies that schools must offer equal athletic opportunities to women...
Cost alone ensures that the U.S. will not institute congregate care for children on a large scale -- quite aside from the abysmal record of most state-run residential-care facilities. "Whatever the abuses in foster care -- and there are many -- there is absolutely no reason to believe that equal, if not worse, abuse won't occur behind the walls," says David Rothman, a professor of social medicine at Columbia. "The difference will be that nobody will hear the screams." Even at well-regarded private institutions such as Mooseheart, four house parents were arrested and convicted of sexually molesting about...
What a mess in Washington too. From the outset, Bill Clinton's Bosnia policy has been equal parts wishful thinking, domestic politics and bluff; now it has virtually disintegrated under the pressure of the Bosnian Serbs and quarreling presidential advisers. The Serb triumph at Bihac has brought home the extent of Washington's failure and opened a bitter debate about what to do next. "Our policy is in complete disarray," admits a senior official. The debacle on the battlefield left the White House, senior Administration officials and a leading legislator separately enunciating contradictory positions...