Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion antipoverty bill that the Senate finally passed, 49 to 20. The cost was just about equal to the amount that the budget-conscious Administration had asked. Originally, the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee had reported out a $2.5 billion bill, and most of the floor argument blew up around how much that figure could be cut. Still to be resolved are Senate-House differences on how the money is to be allocated...
...Southerner, a recently published book in which he excoriated the stultifying influence of racism on the South, Georgia Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner warned: "The South can lose again, just as we have lost for the past century. If Jim Crow is our goal, and equal justice our enemy, the South will lose...
Cold-Eyed Calculation. Holding equal sway with the tyranny of time, is the tyranny of pictures. To the TV reporter, his producer is a man who dotes on "fender-bender footage": auto crashes, fires, demonstrations, fights...
...there are nevertheless a number of aspects in which the building doesn't equal the ambiance of the "medieval cloister" with which the Radcliffe News Office has somewhat unfortunately compared it. While the exterior does, perhaps, evoke the "pattern of light and shadow associated with the contemplative mood of a medieval cloister," it lacks the sense of weighty mass and the play of volumes which is indispensible to the monastic mood. It is one of the few buildings which looks exactly like its cut-out mock-ups or elevation drawings...
...most recent cut in service is consistent with the trend in recent years. Services have been steadily reduced since 1942, when a maid visited each student's room every day. More responsibility for keeping rooms neat and clean has gone to the students, who have not always responded with equal efficiency...