Word: equalization
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...would be headed for traditional programs designed to provide health-care and family-planning services for hundreds of millions of people who want to limit the number of their children but have no access to contraceptives. But more ambitious aspects of the plan call for efforts to give women equal participation in politics and public life and for initiatives to eliminate gender discrimination in the workplace and other forms of economic inequality, such as limits on a woman's ability to obtain credit, hold property or receive an inheritance. The premise of the strategy is that if women are "empowered...
Guterson's particular gift is for description: he takes you into one fully researched scene after another -- gill-netters at work, an autopsy, digging for geoduck clams. With equal precision, Guterson traces the shadow lives of Japanese in the Northwest at a time when Americans of Japanese descent were referred to by Census takers as "Jap Number 1 ... laughing Jap, dwarf...
...From first note to last, Liaisons is a finely polished work that achieves a French transparency, sparingly invoking Debussy (not Pelleas but Images pour Orchestre). Unabashedly tonal, although hardly reactionary, the score glows with a luminescence too long absent from modern opera, and especially opera in English; for an equal, one must go back to Britten's Death in Venice (1973), which Liaisons resembles musically in many small ways...
...Bates went to Dean of Students Suzanne Richardson armed with charges that the BLSA was violating Law School codes guaranteeing equal access to any officially sponsored activity...
Under pressure from Christian groups and conservative lawmakers, the feds have dropped guidelines intended to prevent religious harassment. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission deep-sixed the rules after being swamped with about 100,000 letters of protest. Opponents feared that the rules would go overboard and ban all religious expression from the workplace -- like the wearing of a cross or a yarmulke...