Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever that 10 per cent may be, it is apparent by now that they are not in Boston. Here in this city, as in so much of this violent and unjust and undemocratic nation, Negro children every day of their lives are denied an equal share in the advertised pleasures of their country. Negro kids enter Bostons ghetto schools with the same expectations and the same motivations as children all over America. They come, as other children do, with faces bright, with hopes held high, with energy, with dreams, with expectation. For six years, eight years, ten years, 12 years...
...towns. Sociologists as well as architects and engineers could be part of new town planning teams. Corporations could be given to power to build social facilities, while local authorities could be better represented on corporation boards. The Government could insist that each corporation have a Social Development Office, of equal status to the Architectural office, that would respond to the inhabitants' needs. To help bring the corporation in closer contact to the residents and improve the social balance of the community, the Ministry would insist that corporation executives live in the new towns. Finally, the Government could put several large...
...embarrassed by this fact and fail to see why every Western country, some enjoying privileges obtained indirectly by the deaths of young Americans, should not be involved in the Viet Nam war on an equal stand with the United States...
...filed with a system of worldwide patent clearing houses. The clearing houses would be set up by the body that drafted the treaty, the United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property, administrator of the Paris Convention of 1883, under which 79 nations agree to give equal treatment to one another's inventors. Individual nations would retain the right to grant or reject patents, but international patent centers would check the novelty of most inventions, issue recommendations to national patent offices. Under the plan, the international search centers would be established in the U.S., Germany, the U.S.S.R...
...peasants are flaunting old land deeds and demanding their farms back. Others are enlarging private plots, expanding their own private markets. Still others are disappearing from their farms altogether and fleeing to the cities. The result is that much of this year's grain crop, which should otherwise equal last year's 180 million tons, is in danger of remaining unharvested in the fields. In some areas, food prices are up as much as 20% from this spring...