Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have yet to see anyone mention two very important points concerning that "overly generous" Government employee annuity. First, each civil servant has a flat 7% deducted from his or her gross salary. Second, after having retired and received an amount equal to that contributed, usually about 18 to 24 months after retirement, the annuitant pays full federal (and in most cases, state) income tax. Howard R. Wesley Blue Ridge Summit...
...Kentucky readily ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. But last week, after a noisy debate, state representatives voted 61 to 28 to change their minds, making Kentucky the fourth state to rescind approval of the amendment that would ban discrimination on the basis of sex. Some constitutional experts doubt that a legislature can legally have second thoughts about ratification. Nonetheless, the vote in Kentucky was another sign that the ERA is in deep trouble, even though it has been approved by 35 states, three short of the number needed to make it part of the Constitution...
Both the dance classes and the company are funded directly through the Office for the Arts. The office does not receive its money from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but from roughly equal allotments given by the presidents of Harvard and Radcliffe. "Although the level of funding has remained the same for the last several years," Mayman remarked last week, "we plan to initiate a program to endow the arts as part of the Radcliffe Centennial next year...
...speaking of the outfield, the loss of Dave Singleton, who played a gifted center field last season, to IBM or minor league baseball will not weaken the strong nucleus of returnees. Either converted pitcher Peter Bannish or junior Jim Peccerillo, back from a year off, should be Singleton's equal offensively and more than competent defensively...
...research effort hardly support the popular business theory that American firms are a positive force in South Africa. These firms failed to take major steps to initiate progressive racial employment policies, the report says; in fact they have done less than South African law allows in the areas of equal employment opportunities and the education and training of non-whites...