Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy for an American to be-little the way of life of the Haitian peasantry, to despair the poverty, and to dismiss the country as a fascist dictatorship. But most Haitians would dismiss the American dream with equal ease and with possibly more justification. For what, after all, is progress, when Americans flounder in their affluence and persist in the path of war, racism, and riot...
...must rise to the defense of John Paul Jones. He did not equal Catherine the Great in lack of morals. In today's order of enthroned sex he would hardly be considered out of line. Catherine, on the other hand, was a real original. Jones gave the U.S. its first traditions of victory at sea when they were badly needed. The fact that he did not come from gentility, but instead rose the hard way through determination and an aggressive personality, earned him the jealousy of the Establishment. It was for this that Jones's detractors scorned...
What the country urgently needs, concluded the commission, is a program "equal to the dimension of the problems." That program must be organized "for high impact in the immediate future to close the gap between promise and performance; it must undertake new initiatives and experiments that can change the system of failure and frustration that dominates the ghetto and weakens our society...
...Equal Time. The latest hassle concerns the commission's "fairness doctrine." Under its equal-time provision, a station that puts one political candidate on the air (except in a news show) must give comparable exposure to his opponents. In the most publicized of what will undoubtedly be many legal tests during the current campaign, Senator Eugene McCarthy claimed equal time after Lyndon Johnson's December "Conversation with the President," which ran on all three networks. The FCC denied the request, declaring that the President was not an avowed candidate at the time. McCarthy then took his case...
Judge Burger had one final observation. Any judgment that has the effect of frustrating the House action "would inevitably bring about a direct confrontation with a co-equal branch. Conflicts between federal branches are not merely unseemly but often destructive of important values. The checks and balances we boast of can check and balance just so far. Each branch may occasionally make errors for which there may be no effective remedy," but that "is one of the prices we pay for this independence, this separateness, of each co-equal branch and for the desired supremacy of each within its sphere...