Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professor Dworkin says, "a qualified white has no inherent right to be admitted to medical school ahead of a less-qualified minority member," then we abrogate the public's right to the highest quality medical care. Further, if "the right to be treated as an equal does not mean the right to equal treatment," then what exactly does it mean...
...prime, Callas sang dramatic, lyric and coloratura roles with equal ease. Almost singlehanded she created the revival of bel canto. It was because of her voice and presence that Norma and I Puritani are now popular after decades of neglect. For this one accomplishment, hordes of opera lovers, as well as Sopranos Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe and Sills herself, owe Callas a lasting debt. And she acted these roles with a devouring intensity that might do justice to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...National Women's Political Caucus in San Jose, Calif., were inclined to disagree. For the faltering feminist movement, 1977 has been a discouraging year. The Supreme Court ruling that states no longer have to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions for the poor was an unexpected blow. The Equal Rights Amendment is stalled just three states short of ratification, and conservative anti-feminist forces are picking up strength in their fight against federally funded day care centers, ERA and other women's programs. The San Jose meeting echoed with sour charges of "betrayal," "desertion" and "ego tripping...
...applied to the costs of putting up industrial buildings as well as buying the machinery to fill them. Double taxation of corporate dividends would be reduced or eliminated. The favorite idea now: shareholders receiving dividends would be allowed to take a credit on their personal returns equal to their proportionate share of the taxes that the company has already paid on its profits. A highly oversimplified example of the basic idea: a person who owned 1% of the shares in a company that paid $100,000 in taxes on its profits would subtract $1,000 from the tax that...
...will cost the average American only about five cents each to create a consumer voice within federal agencies." Nader said of the proposed $15 million agency, an appropriation equal to about one hour of the Pentagon or HEW budget...