Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ruled 7 to 1 that a literacy test required for voting in Gaston County, N.C., discriminated against blacks because the county had denied them equal educational opportunities. The literacy test, which made ability to read and write segments of the Constitution a qualification for voting, was declared a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Even if the county today offers a better education to young Negroes, the court decided, this "does nothing for their parents. 'Impartial' administration of the literacy test today would serve only to-perpetuate inequities...
Beauty has never been the exclusive subject of artists, or even their aim. As poets and painters have discovered over the centuries, hell is far more dramatic than heaven. Most painters look with an equal eye on both, as the fancy moves them. But some few, and among them some of the great, have had an ob session for the ugly, and seemed intent on making it uglier. Like T. S. Eliot's Webster, they always saw the skull be neath the loveliest skin. In a time when many artists have become so detached that they try to banish...
...call home to see if the wife and children are O.K. Seated on a black vinyl banquette beneath the leaves of a plastic orange tree, he swills down a triple martini poured from a Boodles bottle and served in a pitcher. By then he may or may not be equal to the doubt ful delight of a tough country pate made with pistachio nuts...
...prospective change with the greatest long-range potential for reshaping the structure of Wall Street. The need is clear. Despite the rich commissions, member firms lack capital for long-term needs such as back-office automation, and several recently had trouble complying with an exchange rule that capital must equal at least 5% of debts. They must now rely on internal growth and borrowings...
...award for the best dissertation. Adams is aware that quite a few recruiters are going out of their way to woo Negroes, but he disdains sinecures. "I want to join a company that is going to get its investment out of me -not just fulfill its commitment to the Equal Opportunity Act." Having rejected many other offers, he will return to Del Monte as a financial analyst...