Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of Clinton's ambiguous locutions, it continued the substantive war Nunn had waged in the hearings. While sparing the President's distinction between orientation and conduct, it eliminated even the faintest possibility that a soldier could admit gay orientation, in public or private. It dropped a clause promising "equal enforcement" among straights as well as gays of a military code of conduct that forbids acts of sodomy. And there was one major difference: although Nunn did not return to the pre-January policy of asking recruits their sexual orientation, his bill left that option open to some future Defense...
...constitutional challenge to Nunn's policy will employ either the First Amendment's free-speech guarantees or the Fifth and 14th Amendments' support of equal protection under the law. The government is already prepared to defend its policy against Clinton's old allies in the gay civil rights movement. In a memorandum to the President early last week that defended the new regulations as constitutional, Janet Reno wrote that First Amendment challenges by gays would probably be rejected by the courts because "the policy is not directed at speech or expression itself," but, presumably, at the habits the speech suggested...
...Equal-protection strategies, which have been attempted before by gay activists, rest on the Constitution's distaste for the "disadvantaging" of an individual because of a group affiliation -- an argument used successfully by blacks and women. Only proof of "a significant State interest" can outweigh that aversion...
...places, Love, Love, and Love recalls Bernhard's performance style, and one almost bears her distinctive vocal intonation--equal parts sarcasm and elegy behind the words. While this proves that Bernhard is sometimes capable of bringing her live energy to the page, it also suggests that her most effective medium is still performance. Love, Love and Love, like the elusive object it's named for, is occasionally enchanting but too often annoying...
...think with problems of homelessness in creasing, there has been an equal and opposite reaction by the police," Shapiro said...