Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Space. Finally last week the President solved it for everyone. He named Frank Roosevelt, 50, to a two-year term as the first chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency created under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The board begins its official function on July 2, investigating specific complaints of job discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin or sex among labor unions or employers with 25 or more workers. Beyond "informal methods of conference, conciliation and persuasion," the commission cannot do much about intransigent violators except to wait for already overworked Civil...
Under the new system the Committee will still assign roommate groups to the same House, with a probable limit of six to each group. The applications which freshmen submit will request only a listing of roommates and data pertinent to equal distribution...
...Brian Davis plays a hard court game equal to Penn's Fred George. Davis is totally unpredictable in singles, playing brilliantly and then erratically...
Once again, the class did not distribute itself the way the Deans had hoped, Watson said, and some juggling had to be done to make each House "equal in talent." The low number of applications to Dunster and Kirkland brought about new adjustments in the selection process that gave them special priviledges...
Union Pressure. Since the nonwhite Britons equal 2% of the total, the notion of a "mixed society" may strike Americans as faintly ridiculous. But in a nation as homogeneous as Britain, that 2% is infinitely more visible than it would be in the U.S., and it arouses, if anything, greater resentment. Restricted in private industry by their background, and by union pressure, to the jobs that white workers refuse, the nonwhites have flocked to the unskilled occupations; they include the dead-hour mill shifts, the state-owned transit systems and nationalized hospitals, which pay some of the lowest salaries...