Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down, forward, backward and sideways. It has a forward pilot's compartment and a separately pressured divers' compartment that enables it to discharge and pick up divers far below the water's surface. When pressure in the divers' compartment has been built up to equal the water pressure outside, a hatch drops open, enabling the divers to depart. When they come back, they can eat and rest in the still-pressurized compartment and then return to work in the watery depths without ever having to undergo a time-consuming decompression process...
...French Composer Pierre Boulez, 42, has the punctilious Gallic virtues: rhythmic deftness, a feeling for nuance, pointillistic detail. In compositions from Debussy through Anton Webern to Boulez, few conductors can equal his idiomatic mastery of bristling complexity and tangy dissonance. He probably never will build a repertory of the standard war horses; as a freelance conductor, he remains a self-confessed dilettante who works "entirely for pleasure...
Salutary Effect. Specifically, said Marcus in a letter to 9,000 suppliers, Neiman-Marcus intends to deal as much as possible with firms who hire and train more people from minorities. "We would rather do business with a company which is actively and sincerely pursuing a policy of equal opportunity than to continue to do business with one which is not," he said. "The Federal Government requires that every one of its suppliers of goods and services certifies that it is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe a private company should do no less...
Neiman-Marcus is one of the first retailers to take such a step in the area of buying practices, and civil rights groups responded approvingly. "The announcement will have a salutary effect," said John A. Morsell, assistant executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "Assuring equal employment opportunity cannot be made the exclusive business of government, and one would think that businessmen would insist upon a major role for business also." Some retailers were less enthusiastic. "This type of action should not fall into the private sector," said Martin B. Kohn, chairman of Baltimore's Hochschild, Kohn & Co. and president...
...philosopher and dialectician who heads Chicago's Institute for Philosophical Research, argues that the matter is far from merely academic. If man is not basically different from the animals, that would undermine "those who now oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that all human beings, being equal in their humanity, should be treated equally." Inferior types might be looked upon as man now looks on inferior animals. A large measure of truth could be read into one of Hitler's Nürnberg decrees that held "there is a greater difference between the lowest forms still called...