Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) voted Monday to move its 1979 annual convention from Chicago to Houston because Illinois has not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Carol Rogers, public information officer for the AAAS, said yesterday...
Goldhamer explained that since national organizations do not meet in the local communities represented by the majority of senators, the legislators do not have to worry about any loss in business caused by the absence of an Equal Rights Amendment. "Downstaters hate Chicago anyway," he added...
Gnomes, it seems, have mastered medical techniques that equal or surpass' Western medicine. Gnomes feed and care for wounded or abandoned small animals, and in return for these small favors rabbits and birds and even elk will help gnomes when they are in trouble...
...dominated almost exclusively. For the French-speaking upper class of lawyers, intellectuals and politicians, it was the history-drenched Grande Allée, in the provincial capital of Quebec City, 150 miles farther north along the St. Lawrence River. The two peoples were more or less separate but certainly not equal: as early as 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that "the immense majority is everywhere French. But it is easy to see that the French are the conquered race...
...trying to meet that ideal, Trudeau, in one of his first major steps, elevated French to equal status with English, at least insofar as the federal government could. His 1969 Official Languages Act provided that French could be used in federal courts across Canada and in any dealings with the government. He raised the number of French-speaking employees in Canada's 330,000-member civil service from 9% to 27%, roughly their proportion of the population. Trudeau warned English-speaking bureaucrats that they would need fluency in both languages for many jobs, and had language courses instituted for them...