Word: equalization
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Both Clintons have since had their consciousness raised. Owners of small businesses -- 16 million strong, nearly equal to the ranks of union members -- last week showed their strength by blocking the employer mandate in key committees that are struggling to frame legislation on health-care reform. The Finance Committee's ranking Republican, Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, explained that big unionized "industries like autos and steel are significant in four or five states, but restaurants and retail outlets are everywhere...
Among these segregated but proud institutions was the elementary school where generations received the sort of rigorous education that inner-city blacks today can hardly imagine. Another was the separate-but-more-than-equal "colored picnic," where blacks who worked at the paper mill gathered to dance, play bid whist and gorge themselves on soul food. Small wonder, as Gates writes, that for many of his parents' generation, "integration was experienced as a loss . . . Who in his right mind would want to go to the mill picnic with the white folks when it meant shutting the colored one down...
Unlike Marsalis, who devotes equal time to classical music, Blanchard turned himself fully to jazz. He recorded five albums with saxophonist Donald Harrison (beginning with New York Second Line in 1984) and then two others leading his own quintet (Terence Blanchard and Simply Stated, both released in 1991). In the New York City club scene, he established himself as a composer and soloist with a silvery tone and a gift for majestic phrasing...
...tribal hostility between the Tutsi and Hutu. Rwanda, with low life expectancy, education and GNP, measures high on the index of human suffering. Deprivation, environmental degradation and desperation have exacerbated tribal rivalries and exploded into mass murder. What Rwanda really needs is family-planning educators and providers, along with equal rights for Rwandan women, because when women make the reproductive decision, family size declines. The influence in Rwanda of another male-dominated hierarchy, and an anti-choice one at that, is more likely to hurt than to help...
...worried that by these changes they are going to be in a disadvantaged position," he said. Perhaps aware he was sounding very lawyerly, he then quoted from his speech at his trial 30 years ago: "I cherish the idea of a new South Africa where all South Africans are equal, where all South Africans work together to bring about security, peace and democracy in our country...