Word: equalize
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...structure gives PBHA an equal and thus a far greater say in the running of PBH than it had in the past,” he said. “More generally, the committee felt that the new structure was the best way to maximize cooperation between Harvard and PBHA...
...activists. But now some gay Oregonians had actual marriage licenses--Canadian ones, but still. And everyone knew the Massachusetts high court was wrestling with its marriage decision, one that many activists were predicting would be favorable. They knew their constitution, like the one in Massachusetts, included sweeping guarantees of equal protection. So while Multnomah gays had won health benefits and other rights through domestic partnership just four years before, now they wanted full-on marriage, and the task of getting it fell to Roey Thorpe, B.R.O.'s executive director...
...nothing particularly revelatory or shocking here. And there's something a little surreal about the book's lack of perspective. Kennedy was a President who confronted the unthinkable in many forms, be it nuclear annihilation or Oleg Cassini dancing the twist with Robert McNamara. Grace and Power gives them equal weight. --By Lev Grossman
...system in the country at the time," Greenberg notes. Southern congressmen made it a priority to keep African-Americans from obtaining power, but Brown allowed for change. Judge Carter believes that the greatest accomplishment of the ruling was to create a black middle class: "The court said everyone was equal, so now you had it by right...
...Carter, the solution still comes back to education. "If I could pick any case to argue today, I'd argue a case to secure equal education for black kids. Well, I guess I'd be arguing Brown...