Word: equalizing
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Last fall the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission abandoned the use of goals and timetables to remedy discrimination in U.S. employment practices. But EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas told Congress last week that his agency will resume its use of these antidiscrimination tools. The reason: the Supreme Court last month reaffirmed the legality of goals and timetables in the workplace. Said Thomas: "That's the law of the land, whether I like it or not." Civil rights leaders, however, are still wary that the EEOC will let employers drag their feet on meeting hiring goals. Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership...
Acertain statue was recently hyped so vulgarly that every columnist on the East Coast has had a crack at the 200 Elvis impersonators. The celebration affirmed this country's wish to be symbolized accurately by a beacon of liberty and equal opportunity...
State Rep. William Galvin (D-Allston) observed as he left the Eighth Congressional District race that "the media can be fair or they can be interesting" -- they can give equal time to each candidate, or they can feature those with quotable speeches and photogenic looks, assuming that their audience will not be interested in the others. Many journalists underestimate their audiences and the people--accustomed to being underestimated--learn to expect simplistic coverage for lack of experience with genuinely democratic consideration of issues and people...
...stage work was best when it could borrow grandeur from a vanished period. But the great achievement was not in these efforts. It was for a long-running production titled Cecil Beaton!, with sets, costumes, lighting, direction and dialogue by the author. No epitaph by friend or critic could equal the one he ad-libbed for himself when a journalist reminded him that he had not been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. True, Beaton acknowledged. Then he added the irrefutable punch line that summed up a life: "But I managed to put it there...
...pattern currently accepted for campaign forums, all of the candidates in the Eighth race, or at least all of the Democratic candidates, appear together. Hopeless hopefuls and serious challengers alike get equal dribbles of time in which to make prepared statements or answer a few predictable questions. Candidates are rarely caught off guard, and hence the most preposterous balloons of hot air are rarely pricked...