Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Civil Service roster to fill several temporary clerk-typist positions for a year. The office superintendent, a white man, selected seven people (four women and three men) from nine applicants, all of whom were black. One of the rejected applicants, Mr. P., on probation for assault, complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office that he had been the victim of race and sex discrimination. The superintendent admitted that he had rejected F. because of his criminal record. F. was given one year's employment retroactively because, it was reasoned, blacks are arrested for assault more often than whites...
...proposals that Faculty members indicated would easily gain approval include suggestions that equal numbers of students and Faculty members serve on the committee--all with full voting power--and that hearsay evidence no longer be allowed...
...These are some of the phrases that his colleagues use to describe the man whom President Carter has selected as his special ambassador to the Israeli-Egyptian political talks. Alfred Leroy ("Roy") Atherton Jr., 56, Cyrus Vance's Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, deserves equal praise for sacrificial obedience. After 30 years in the foreign service, 14 of them dealing directly with the ever boiling Middle East cauldron, Atherton would have preferred a more relaxed ambassadorial assignment. As Author Edward R.F. Sheehan said of Atherton in his chronicle of shuttle diplomacy, The Arabs, Israelis...
...difference between, say, Lear and Lycidas. Hobey Baker, a masterpiece of athletic talent at Princeton in the years before World War I, died in 1918 when his plane crashed in France. After his graduation, Baker had said sadly: "I realize my life is finished ... I will never equal the excitement of playing on the football field...
...involvement in the Washington civil rights movement sparked her interest in feminism. "As I worked for open housing and equal rights for blacks, I realized that I myself did not have equal rights and opportunities," she says...