Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever been assigned to Zone 13, and none of the Negroes covering that beat ever patrolled the city's white sections. Charging that the police department was assigning them by race, twelve of St. Petersburg's 14 Negro officers sued the city two years ago under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...
...victims of thalidomide number fewer than 20. Great Britain, however, has more than 1,000 thalidomide babies. In West Germany, where Chemie Grünenthal GMBH first introduced thalidomide as a magically potent tranquilizer and sleeping pill, there are at least 3,184 surviving thalidomide-deformed children, while an equal number have died. In addition, some 5,000 adults are believed to have suffered permanent injury, a generalized neuritis that is invariably painful and sometimes disabling...
...world's communications business. That leaves a relatively puny share for the U.S.S.R. The Russians' hope seems to be pinned on luring away some of Intelsat's present members with promises of greater authority in Intersputnik's affairs. Whoever joins, the Russians promise, will have equal voting rights in Intersputnik's council, whatever the country's size or share. Several smaller members of Intelsat resent the fact that management is heavily weighted in the U.S.'s favor, with voting rights allocated in proportion to a country's share in ownership and capital...
Rarely in medical history has a pa tient received such intensive treatment and survived so long after so many heart attacks as Dwight David Eisenhower. To some extent, that endurance could be ascribed to the elusive and in tangible quality that laymen call "constitution." Equal credit must go to the extraordinary assemblage of talent and technology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. No more than about 20 other U.S. hospitals can boast a comparable cardiology staff and facilities...
...other body-part replacements, and Vonnegut uses it to poke fun at the idea that social and emotional problems occur only because humanity is locked in decaying protoplasmic prisons. The author is even more pointed in his attack on the notion that if all humans are not born equal, the good society will equalize them. Consequently, in his story Harrison Bergeron, a "Handicapper General" cripples people mentally and physically to keep everyone to the norm. "The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which...