Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OTHER ISSUES. Americans have not substantially changed their views on most of the big campaign issues. They heavily favor mandatory registration of all handguns (65% to 30%) and constitutional amendments to ensure equal rights for women (66% to 27%). They oppose busing (49% to 42%), and are against the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban abortion...
...everybody who has taken Civics I should know, when the voters mark their ballots, they are really endorsing a slate of electors picked by the candidate's party. The electors of the winning party are authorized to cast all of their state's votes (a total equal to the number of its Congressmen and Senators) for their candidate. But they are not legally bound to do so. In each of the past five elections, one "faithless elector" has cast his ballot for someone else...
...putting "churlish" attendants out of work, Wren comments: "One more bit of the inhumane is replaced by the non-human." The author strikes this mordant note often enough to suggest a bitterness behind the punch lines. Berger rarely fails to make wretched excess seem hilarious, but he insists that equal emphasis be placed on both excess and wretched. Paul Gray
Whether or not these high school women's games were of "equal" caliber with men's games is insignificant. A women's program was backed by one million dollars promoting competition and plenty of action was sufficient to draw the crowds. That is significant...
...administration has refused to accept its responsibility toward women and minorities in the Harvard community. Instead of taking the affirmative steps necessary to counteract a tradition which does not cater to our needs and interests, Harvard has maintained the unrealistically ideal assumption that every interest group is on equal social and financial footing here...