Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State legislatures got the one-man, one-vote reapportionment treatment from the Supreme Court four years ago. Last week the court used the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment to extend one-man, one-vote to city, town and county legislatures as well...
Looking askance at the voting districts of Midland County, Texas, Justice Byron White spoke for a 5-to-3 majority. "The equal- protection clause," he said, "reaches the exercise of state power however manifested, whether exercised directly or through municipal subdivisions of the state. If voters residing in oversize districts are denied their constitutional right to participate in the election of state legislators, precisely the same kind of deprivation occurs when the members of a city council, school board, or county governing board are elected from districts of substantially unequal population...
...districting after the state-legislature decision, but many have not. The aftermath of Avery v. Midland County will probably be as dramatic-and chaotic-as was the aftermath of the initial one-man, one-vote decision, particularly since the court again chose not to specify how close to the equal-population ideal a districting plan must come to be acceptable...
...market. Their customers siphoned off some $2 billion worth of gold from London between the mid-November devaluation of the pound and the mid-March closing of the gold pool, when the U.S. and six other countries stopped selling gold to the private market. That huge supply, equal to about two years' South African output, must remain the key source of bullion for free-gold trading for some time...
What is a would-be poet to do when he finds he has nothing to say? Fortunately for him, the 20th century has an art form for everybody. The dumbstruck poet may now make his mark as a "concretist," practicing a definition-defying new discipline derived in equal measure from pop art, typewriter doodles and the undeniable truth that a poem is, after all, just so many letters arranged on a page...