Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, 50,* came into office good friends and close colleagues-and they were determined to remain so. They have stepped in to squelch attempts by their underlings to pick fights between the State Department and the National Security Council. The two men have roughly equal access to the President: Brzezinski briefs him early every morning, while Vance's last official act of the day is usually to prepare a confidential memo on late developments for Carter's bedtime reading. But Vance and Brzezinski have had their differences on matters of policy, notably...
...nation. Accordingly, Giscard saw the necessity of inviting the leftist opinions-even though, as it turned out, those opinions were boringly familiar. Essentially, Mitterrand was seeking to persuade Giscard to give France's 13.9 million leftist voters a greater voice in political life. He asked for equal time for opposition leaders on government-controlled television and radio. He also pressed for their increased participation in the National Assembly. Finally, he reiterated his party's call for proportional representation in parliamentary and local elections...
...come confusion and distortion, and the cleverer guy wins." The system also suffers from disparity among lawyers. Some are superior, and others are what U.S. Judge David Bazelon labels "walking violations of the Sixth Amendment" (which guarantees the right to counsel). As Bar Critic Jerold S. Auerbach put it, "Equal justice under law" all too often means "unequal justice under lawyers...
Curb Regulation. The spreading powers of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and hundreds of other regulatory agencies aggravate inflation by adding to the budget and, more important, swelling the costs of doing business. One significant step would be to hold down the EPA's "enforcement" spending, which is budgeted to jump from $73 million to almost $95 million. Every dollar devoted to EPA "enforcement" obliges U.S. business to invest many more dollars on nonproductive machinery, which then raises prices, reduces productive capital spending and retards hiring...
...first issue, 175 pages long, will consist entirely of articles written by outside contributors on topics ranging from women's athletics to the Equal Rights Amendment. Future issues will contain articles, notes, comments and book reviews written by students, Carol Schrager, an editor-in-chief, said yesterday...