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Word: equalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...islands have been British Associated States, and all are leaving London's paternal embrace hungry for aid. They share one other trait: a capacity to cause problems for the 26-member OAS, which they all plan to join. Each will receive a vote equal to that of the U.S., Mexico and Brazil. Joining such other former British colonies as Jamaica and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the poor little paradises of the Caribbean could form a bloc with as many votes as all of South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICA: Poor Little Paradise | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Florida voters yesterday also refused to add an equal rights amendment to their state constitution. A California proposal to ban smoking in all public places failed, as did a Missouri attempt to institute a right-to-work law. And the voters of Philadelphia refused to reform their city charter to allow Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek an unprecedented third term in office...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Nation's Voters Slash Taxes, Reject Betting | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...intend to see 40. Chester (Chet) Hunnicut Pomeroy is the scion of an old Key West shipbuilding family, but Chet has rejected all that for fleeting fame in the three-chord world of rock and roll. Or something larger than that: A Mick Jagger-like figure with an equal part of Maharaji Ji and Keith Richard's bad teeth thrown in, he somehow got elevated into a spiritual godhead, an Oudpensky for our times. But somebody jumped the stakes on old Chet, and marked the deck--his final performance began with him crawling out of the rectum of a dead...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Caribbean Syndicalist Novel | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...Brustein himself will be different at Harvard. Under Brustein's plan, the members of the company would draw half-salaries both from the Rep. and from the University--both "do" and "teach" simultaneously. Nevertheless, the University should demand rigid contractual agreements from Brustein and his staff to pay equal, if not more than equal, attention to undergraduates. One proposal worth closer attention is for each professional to serve as a House tutor in drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brustein Affair | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

...there were no women undergraduates at all; now there are 88, or some 10% of the student body. Observes retired President Lee A. Du-Bridge: "Our football game is a full-time day of seminars for students and alumni. And they flood the campus for them. It is equal to homecomings in each of the disciplines." Adds President Goldberger: "Our unique position is our mystique. Our small size enables us to form a community of scientists, a scholarly intimacy that cannot be found any place else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Community of Scientists | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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