Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree to discuss certain kinds of guarantees, provided that such guarantees are equal on the Arab side and the Israeli side. All this must be within the framework of a just and peaceful solution. For example, if [that] solution requires the presence of a United Nations observer force or a U.N. emergency force on the line that divides the two parties, then we are willing to discuss this, provided that the presence is on both sides of the line. Again, it is possible to discuss the idea of a demilitarized zone, provided it is of narrow limits and on both...
...restrictions that in effect bar racially integrated low-cost housing projects. Said Justice Lewis Powell for the majority: "Official action will not be held unconstitutional solely because it results in a racially disproportionate impact . . . Proof of racially discriminatory intent or purpose is required to show a violation of the equal protection clause." The court found no such intent...
Thus concludes the "Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities" voted on April 10, 1970 by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Implicit in it is basic equality for all members of the University in "free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change." (Ibid.) Self-determination and self-governance are the guarantors of such equal freedom, and the machinery set up to protect the University community from disruption of its members' academic pursuits should reflect these qualities. People's rights are best protected when they themselves participate in the government established for them...
...make the House system more uniform--and in his view, more equitable--cannot go halfway. By moving freshmen out of the Quad and reducing or eliminating the student choice factor in housing assignments, Fox's plan has a chance--in theory, at least--of making the Houses more equal in students' minds...
Feminists consider Sigmund Freud one of history's leading male chauvinist pigs. No wonder. The master taught that women are far more masochistic and narcissistic than men and more prone to neurosis, that they are rigid and unchangeable by the age of 30, and unable to equal the high moral character of men. These doleful views flow from a single Freudian concept: penis envy. As Freud saw it, female identity grows from an infant girl's shocking discovery that she lacks a penis. Later, in about the third year of life, she carries this sense of castration...