Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selection shows] that the University does recognize the importance of equal representation," he says. "I expect it will be seen as an important step to [minority] students...
...after, and so began the Battle of Britain, the first ever to be fought entirely in the skies, anxiously watched by ordinary citizens below. Goring had roughly 1,400 bombers and nearly 1,000 fighters, the R.A.F. defenders fewer than 900 fighters. The opposing planes were roughly equal, the German Messerschmitts with a slightly faster rate of climb, the British Spitfires and Hurricanes more maneuverable. (The British also had some secret weapons: a radar warning system that the Germans greatly underestimated, and the Operation Ultra computer that broke most German military codes, particularly those of the Luftwaffe.) The outnumbered British...
What if vulgar protesters wiped the ground with a flag designed exactly like the U.S. flag -- but colored orange, brown and green? Should that be an offense? Should making such a flag equal desecration...
...Silber's view that system is in an appalling state. "The standards today are derisory by standards that were operative in ordinary little country schools a hundred years ago," he writes. A believer in meritocracy based on struggle, Silber decries what he sees as a pernicious confusion between equality of opportunity and equal ability. "Not a single member of our founding fathers believed any such rubbish," he says. "It is perfectly obvious that all individuals are not born with equal ability. I wish I could run as fast as Carl Lewis...
...want anybody calling me Ms. I have certain ideas that I had even before the feminist movement came along. I always believed in these things, like equal pay for equal work, but I can't say that I went out and fought for those principles...