Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss of export sales, combined with the drop in land values, makes it harder than ever for farmers to pay off their suddenly crushing debts. Under Secretary of Agriculture Frank Naylor estimates that perhaps 40,000 farmers have debts equal to 70% or more of their shrinking assets. "They are not necessarily out of business," he says, "but they will have to do something to improve their position this year in order to be able to operate next year. It may be selling off a piece of land or a piece of machinery. Depending on how good they...
...equal and fair employment practices for all employees, including permission for black and other non-white workers to bargain collectively on matters relating to wages and conditions of employment...
...equal pay for equal work, with an adequate minimum wage...
SOME OF THE Houses are a let better to live in than others. Smoking is addictive. Both are facts, and there's no reason to be ashamed of either. But if the College is serious about trying to make the Houses more equal, both in their comfort and representation of the Rainbow Coalition that is Harvard, it should own up to the facts...
...myself, I will find the responses of the freshmen of the Undergraduate Council poll most instructive. To determine the fair terms of cooperation in a society of citizens regarded as free and equal, philosopher John Rawls uses the idea of an "original position." People in the "original position" are hidden behind a "veil of ignorance": though familiar with how society operates, they do not know their particular situation within it. In the society of Harvard undergraduate housing, the freshman class best approximates this state. If they were to assemble together to formulate a system of assigning Houses, any unanimous agreement...