Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunlop, a labor economist and student of technological change, is a member of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. He has participated in labor-management mediations in the coal, railroad, atomic energy, and construction industries...
...Spectre, Largo masterminds a daring bombnap. He hijacks a Vulcan bomber aloft on a NATO training flight, sinks its atomic payload in the Atlantic near Nassau. Then, for an asking price of ?100 million, he promises not to obliterate Miami or a city of equal size...
...Force and Navy. The Air Force, arguing that flexibility requires a permanent "mix" of missiles and ultramodern bombers, would prefer a three-or four-man craft equipped with exotic "penetration aids" to get it past enemy radar and missile defenses. Its ideal plane would have a range at least equal to the most advanced B-52s-nearly 10,000 miles fully loaded. What the Air Force is getting, at least for now, is essentially a beefed-up two-man fighter with limited capacity for penetration aids, a round-trip range of 4,000 to 6,000 miles and a speed...
...that of the Big Ten than the N.F.L." Remarks like that provoke wrath in such A.F.L. coaches as San Diego's Sid Gillman and New York's Weeb Ewbank-both of whom coached title-winning teams in the N.F.L. before switching. "The two leagues are absolutely equal now," says Gillman. "Our top teams are every bit as good as the top teams in the N.F.L., and our weaker teams are every bit as strong as the weaker N.F.L. teams...
Amsterdam is not so much an advocate of more civil rights as he is a crack criminal lawyer seeking better protection of existing rights. The rights themselves have been won-from free expression in 1789 to equal voting in " 1965. And yet, he says, the American citizen may still be "arrested, jailed, fined under guise of bail and put to every risk and rancor of the criminal process if he expresses himself unpopularly." In the years ahead, Amsterdam intends to concentrate on making "the paper right a practical protection...