Word: equalize
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...These dissimilar waters represent a dichotomy within the Latin American gauche. On the one hand, there is that represented by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since his 2002 election, Lula has worked with the markets, introducing reforms to increase income equality. Although corruption scandals have become a Katrina for his political capital, and might even sink his reelection campaign, his whale-sized Brazil sails toward a richer more equal future...
...better, says retail veteran Norm Feuti, who spent 15 years working as a manager at a host of stores. Instead of blogging or just complaining, Feuti created a comic strip, Retail, now syndicated in 43 newspapers, depicting the staff at the fictional department store Grumbel's. Feuti is an equal-opportunity scold. His strip features not just the customers chatting on their cell phones in the checkout line but also the clerks who work only for the employee discount and the managers obsessed with the employee dress code. "People aren't even aware of their own behavior," Feuti says. "Maybe...
...program. The result left the two teams bunched amid a handful of teams atop the ECAC standings as they entered the stretch run of the conference schedule. Both squads generated a fair share of looks at the net throughout the contest, but the dueling goaltenders were equal to the challenge, each pitching shutouts for 65 minutes. On the Harvard side, it was a fresh face between the pipes, with freshman Brittany Martin starting in place of concussed regular Ali Boe. Martin stopped 32 shots on the night, including five during a busy overtime period. Her counterpart, Bears sophomore...
According to the Medical School’s website, “it is the strong and consistent policy” of the school “to ensure equal access to rights, privileges and opportunities without regard to...sexual orientation...
...thousands of people in the world—even on this hallowed campus, America’s so-called bastion of justice and equality—who are richer, smarter, and more talented than I am. And yet, despite this abomination, our society, steeped in the rhetoric of equal opportunity, does little to ensure a truly equal system. I’m referring, of course, to the equality of outcome. Why suffer inequity when we can all be the same? A personal issue of mine—one that really offends my acute sense of equality?...