Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virus. Said Bila Kapita, an AIDS expert from Kinshasa, Zaire: "Today we know that AIDS is almost everywhere in Africa, especially central Africa. The question is, Why does Africa seem to be such a hot spot?" No answer was forthcoming. In Africa, AIDS strikes men and women in nearly equal numbers and, Kapita said, seems to be primarily spread by heterosexual contact...
...liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, it's common sense." Said Robb: "Laissez-faire may be good economic policy, but it's terrible social policy." The Federal Government, agreed Cuomo, must find "intelligent, fair and effective ways to help the poor help themselves." Eleanor Holmes Norton, who headed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Carter Administration, stressed the importance of shoring up the "family mission" within the ghettos but added that "only government can create a mainstream of high-paying jobs...
...justices said that more sweeping remedies do not violate federal civil rights laws or the Constitution's equal-protection guarantees...
...clerk in 1952, Rehnquist wrote a memo for Justice Jackson stating that "separate but equal" public education for blacks was "right and should be reaffirmed." Questioned about this at his confirmation hearings in 1971, Rehnquist insisted that he was expressing the Justice's views, not his own. But University of Chicago Law School Professor Dennis Hutchinson, who is writing a biography of Jackson, calls Rehnquist's explanation "absurd." Jackson always instructed his clerks to express their own views, not his, says Hutchinson. Last year Rehnquist stated that he now believes that the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision Brown...
...threatening the stability of a U.S. ally which has claimed to maintain Western values, but rather that his government is evolving rapidly into an Eastern Block nation itself. The limits to which South Africa is willing to go to avoid recognizing the humanity of its majority population is equal only to the repression prevelent in the world's notoriously closed societies. If Pik Botha truly fears the totalitarianism that characterizes many communist governments, he should properly fear the direction of his own regime...