Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Equal Rights...
...fighting trim, resolved to do away with the traditional Tory way of choosing its leaders by the "customary processes"-that is, by informal agreement of the few ranking leaders. Home's successor will be chosen this week by democratic election in which all 303 Tory M.P.s will have equal votes...
Unimpressed. Last month, when the Sudan got its first democratic government since a 1958 army coup, Arab hopes ran high that the blacks might finally listen to reason. The new regime promised them equal rights, religious freedom and a minority in the Cabinet. The south was unimpressed. The offers fell far short of the provincial autonomy demanded by even moderate southern leaders. Still worse, the power behind the new regime was a bright young man named Sadik el Mahdi-scion of the Sudan's richest family and boss of the Mahdist sect, which to the south is the very...
Using an ordinary wrench for such an ordinary job would throw an astronaut for a loop. Newton's third law of motion is an inexorable reminder that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, in a state of weightlessness, without gravity to anchor the man, an astronaut attempting to put together a space station while in orbit could not hope to use anything as simple as the big wrench with which a car driver changes tires. Every time he tried to exert pressure on nut or bolt, he would turn in the opposite direction. Martin...
...Equal Partner. Not all of the troublesome economic currents are transatlantic. In Washington two weeks ago, a delegation of Japanese Cabinet members jolted U.S. Cabinet members by demanding, in effect, that the U.S. begin treating Japan as an equal partner in economic matters. The visitors stiffly turned down U.S. requests for a lowering of Japanese tariffs against U.S. goods and restrictions against U.S. investments. They also declined a U.S. invitation to contribute to a billion-dollar aid program for Southeast Asia, rejected the U.S. suggestion that they withhold long-term credits from Communist China...