Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The nation's major civil rights coalition yesterday stepped up its attack on Chief Justice designate William H. Rehnquist, arguing in a report that he has opposed equal justice for minorities "at every turn...
...Leadership Conference, composed of 185 organizations, said its main reason for opposing Rehnquist's nomination "is his 35-year record of opposition to the fundamental principle of equal justice under...
...inhabitants. In Uganda, a study of more than 1,000 pregnant women in the capital city of Kampala showed that 13.6% carried the virus. While male victims outnumber female victims by 13 to 1 in the U.S., in Africa the disease appears to strike women and men in roughly equal numbers. The same holds true in Haiti...
...Chernobyl nuclear-power plant has again demonstrated the danger of uncontrolled nuclear power and highlighted the destructive consequences to which its military use or damage to peaceful nuclear facilities during military operations could lead." And Petrosyants told the press conference, "The explosion of the smallest nuclear warhead would be equal to three Chernobyls." U.S. officials quickly pointed out that Moscow's attempt to link Chernobyl to the arms race was a predictable effort to divert attention from its own failures...
Suppose he was standing beside the town's lone rail track and saw a train coming from the north at 80 m.p.h. and on the same track another train roaring toward him from the south at equal speed. What would he do? The recruit, said Johnson, thought a few seconds, then brightened and responded, "I'd run home and get my brother." The recruiter had never heard that answer, and asked what for. Said the young man: "My brother's never seen a train wreck...