Word: equalize
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West Germany is the world's second largest trader after the U.S. Yet German political influence is not remotely equal to its economic power. In foreign affairs, Bonn is subservient not only to Washington, but often to London and Paris, and it moves uncertainly in the rest of the world; during the recent Middle Eastern imbroglio, West Germans felt that they were kicked around even by the Arabs...
There have been 16 ounces (Latin undo) to the English pound (Latin pondus) ever since the Romans invaded Britain MCMXXII years ago. The yard is 36 inches long because England's Henry I (1100-1135) decreed that it should equal the distance from a man's outstretched thumb to his nose. Indeed the whole British system of weights and measures is fraught with tradition, and for that reason it is frightfully hard to work with, as generations of British schoolchildren, agonizing over gills, pecks and rods, have learned...
...classes," says Michigan Fellow Solomon Cytrynbaum, 27, who teaches psychology, "it makes me wish I had had teachers like us. I was introduced to psychology by one of the biggest names in the field-and it was the lousiest course 1 ever took." At best, the TA is the equal of an Oxford don. Harvard Philosophy Chairman Rogers Albritton believes that "teaching fellows are often better teachers than the senior men. They have more energy and interest." Michigan's Vice President Roger Heyns boasts: "Some of our teaching fellows would be instructors or assistant professors at other schools...
...that ranks as one of the U.S.'s most impressive private collections. He is thus not only one of the few individual collectors with the money and desire for a first-class Rembrandt, but also that even rarer creature: a man who pursues great paintings and additional companies with equal vigor, thereby establishing a collector's reputation in both business...
...want football tickets, travelling fellowships, representation on educational policy committees." Hers is a world of things, not emotions, desires, or values (and, except for fellowships, they are rather small things at that: "we want a graduation ceremony that is part of Harvard's.") Her tragi-comic, feminist pleas for equal status ("and Radcliffe, oh Radcliffe, how long...") bear little relation to her conclusion that Radcliffe girls leave after four years feeling that they" were never part of something." Many, many people at Harvard are no different...