Word: equalization
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...face a review from Congress. More importantly, the government does not want to end up owning Citigroup. Then taxpayers would be on the hook for all of the bank's debt. So the most the government could invest in Citigroup would be $20 billion, which is the amount equal to what is held by current shareholders. If Citigroup were to issue shares to the government greater than its current value, taxpayers would be left with a more than 50% stake in the company...
...using schools as command posts for the Underground Railroad. In a Puritan culture that viewed children as evil miniatures corrupted by original sin, Quakers treated them with respect, as Children of Light: no whips, no paddles, no coerced belief. Long before the days of women's suffrage and equal rights crusades, Quakers were unique in integrating women fully into the ministry; the schools were not only coeducational, but they focused on equipping girls with all of the same spiritual and intellectual apparatuses that boys had. It's no accident that Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott and any number...
...cultural consciousness that we refuse to believe that some people will get lucky and some people won’t. The specific purpose of Frederick Douglass’s speech—often glossed over in history books—was to argue that freedmen ought to be given equal opportunities for success, and that they should jump at those opportunities when they presented themselves. We forget that ultimately even Douglass concludes that “properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men...We have all either begged, borrowed, or stolen...
...love in, fur out” protest in Harvard Square—six near naked protesters on a giant mattress, protesting fur—the Harvard Salient expressed predictable outrage. And when secular philosophers cite Darwin’s findings on human-animal similarities as a basis for more equal rights between species, pious conservatives cringe...
...which have been the bedrock of its control. But the MDC expected to be given authority over the Ministry of Home Affairs, which controls the police force, and it warned last Friday that it would stay out of any new government in which it were offered less than an equal share of power, which was the principle of the Sept. 15 agreement. But at a summit held Nov. 9 in South Africa, SADC leaders recommended that the MDC and Zanu-PF should share control of Home Affairs - a proposal that would keep the balance of power tilted firmly to Mugabe...