Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their professional incarnations, the spring IOP fellows have written nationally acclaimed books, lobbied for the Equal Rights Amendment, produced television commercials and reported on presidential elections. One of the fellows even switched his party affiliation--from Democrat to Republican--in the course of a long career...
...proponents argue that the alternative is for the poor to continue to suffer from crime. South Central leaders have fought for years against police- deployment patterns, which are based on a formula that considers property crimes roughly equal to violent crimes against people. This may please Porsche owners in Bel Air, but it does little to console the victims of shootings in Watts. The policy is under review by an outside consultant...
Hefner, who has organized fundraisers for the Equal Rights Amendment and for the Democratic party, said there is no cause and effect relationship between pornography and the abuse of women. The original impetus for creating the Meese Commission was to establish such a link, she said...
This new brew, says Katz, not only tasted great but was very filling; it was almost equal to animal protein for nutrition. Furthermore, alcoholic intoxicants have "a very special significance in every society," he notes. All these pluses "provided the extra motivation to make sure they had the seeds around as a regular source of this special food...
...males appear to enjoy greater legal protection in job-loss situations than in affirmative-action cases covering hiring and promotion. Last year the high court rejected a Jackson, Mich., plan that laid off white teachers while retaining black teachers with less seniority. The plan, said the court, violated the equal-protection clause of the Constitution...