Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegation to make an equal opportunity officer's head spin: A committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this week charged the University with violating affirmative action guidelines in the hiring of an individual who is now coordinating minority recruitment and admissions at the GSAS...
...significant developments beyond Dukakis's control greatly strengthened his position. First, the state's economy improved significantly. A couple of years ago Massachusetts' unemployment rate was several points above the national average; now the two figures are almost equal. Inflation and federal cutbacks in military installations (a Nixon revenge tactic for Massachusetts' Democratic vote in 1972) have been slowed...
...advantage, it seems to me, of single sex education for women, is that it exposes women to positive role models and encourages them to succeed. Until coeducational institutions like Harvard/Radcliffe have more equal numbers of men and women professors and professionals, until their budgets reflect an equal commitment to male and female athletic activities, until there is equal respect, encouragement, and opportunity for the achivements of women students, the option of women's colleges must be maintained. Elisabeth Griffith Fellow, Institute of Politics John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government
...parties in Congress. Last week the House Budget Committee voted to increase the $1.7 billion for jobs programs in fiscal 1977 to $3.5 billion, and under intense debate were Carter's proposed business tax changes, which offer an option of a 12% investment tax credit or a credit equal to 4% of Social Security taxes. Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, prefers a tax credit equal to 25% of the wages of new employees, up to $4,200 per worker. Presumably this would induce businesses to hire more people, but it would not encourage capital...
...simple, direct, yet shrewd. Envious Republicans could find little to fault. "He was folks, and folks is in," said an insider at the Republican National Committee. "I hate to say it, but from a purely analytical point of view, I loved it." Even so, the R.N.C. asked networks for equal time. In California, a party official said, "We've gotten some complaints on the phone about this. People ask whether we're going to challenge the President on the need to conserve energy or his pledge to put a ceiling on the size of the Federal Government...