Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this financial peccadillo an occasion for racial rejoicing? Because it shows that equal opportunity for blacks is alive and well. When Brown was decided, it would have been unthinkable for an African American to be accused of a financial crime of such magnitude for the simple reason that no African American was in a position to commit one. Back then, being a messenger or clerk was the best job a black could hope for on Wall Street. Beyond that, many whites thought blacks lacked the intellect to devise a scheme as sophisticated as the one Jett is accused of, much...
...which blacks have long been excluded. Someday a black financier will have the power to commit a massive fraud that shakes stock markets around the world, get a slap on the wrist from the courts and walk away with millions. Blacks will have secured a new civil right: the equal opportunity to steal big-time, just like the white guys...
...ouster; on the day of her departure, her commanding officer wept. And last week Federal District Judge Thomas S. Zilly ordered her reinstated. The judge, a Reagan appointee, explained that the old military policy was "based on heterosexual members' fear and dislike of homosexuals." Given the Constitution's equal-protection clause, Zilly continued, such feelings "are . . . impermissible bases for governmental policies." Said a jubilant Cammermeyer: "This is what we've been waiting...
...Although we do not support the complete elimination of Radcliffe per se, we do advocate opening Radcliffe completely to men and making equal, joint citizenship a reality for male and female students...
...Hajek says she was probably chosen as captain because she ignores the politics and concentrates on the sport itself. So when coaches decided to christen a varsity practice boat "Title IX" in honor of the federal law which mandates equal opportunity in athletics for men and women, Hajek took little part in the festivities...