Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national level, G.O.P. candidates won only 40% of the seats in the House of Representatives during the 1962 mid-term election, even though they collected 48% of the votes. Last year, after nearly two-thirds of the states had redrawn their congressional districts to make them more nearly equal in population, Republicans increased their share of House seats to 43% while increasing their share of the vote only to 48.3%. Roughly a dozen states are still at work reapportioning their congressional districts; only last week, a federal court threw out a 1966 redistricting plan adopted by New York and ordered...
Prevailing Pattern. In Vermont, where the town of Stratton (pop. 24) once had equal representation with Burlington (pop. 35,531), a reapportioned legislature has abolished the poll tax, approved a capital-gains tax and passed the first deficit budget in the state's history. In Maryland, where suburban representatives have replaced many small-county lawmakers, a graduated income tax, a fair-housing law and the state's first billion-dollar budget have been adopted (TIME, April...
...clear yesterday how boards of trustees at other Boston area hospitals would react to the Council's plan. No board is forced to follow the council's recommendations but Boston hospitals have an informal agreement to maintain reughly equal wage levels...
Thirty made it through the gate at the north end of the Yard, and an equal number squeezed through a gap in the fence at the corner of Mower after the gate was closed. When they got to the Commons, the freshmen didn't know what to do, so they yelled, ran, and played hide-and-go-seek with the police. Bursars cards were taken, and the would-be rioters skulked back into the Yard through the hole near Mower...
...their need for a decent living naturally commands attention and because in the matter of teaching fellows' salaries Harvard has fallen below the place of high distinction which she occupies in most of her undertakings, we believe that our request for an increase in salary deserves consideration on an equal basis with most of the other programs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For the same reasons we believe that we may in addition ask the Faculty to reconsider its priorities in the light of our request...