Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King is rightly honored for his landmark achievements in the field of civil rights; his leadership in the Montgomery and Birmingham boycotts, his influence in drafting the 1964 Civil Rights Act, his compelling appeals for equal rights that reached a stirring peak in his "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington. These victories have been noted at length and should continue to be trumpeted loudly...
...problems, he consoled himself by announcing that on opening night, "Tchaikovsky will probably be there with his entourage: Borodin, Moussorgsky, Cui, Balakirev, Rimsky- Korsakov." From the evidence afforded by Maiorano and Ashley, there can be little doubt that in the celestial conservatory, Tchaikovsky regards Balanchine as his equal...
...should do a cost-benefit analysis each time individual liberty is in conflict with some other good we prize. Freedom of association is a good. Equal opportunity is a good. To impose membership rules on the Final clubs is to sacrifice the former. Not to impose them is to sacrifice the latter. Stevens and Harvard College, in the absence of any showing that denial of equal opportunity does harm in this case, have determined that freedom of association must be sacrificed. The fact that many who share their belief in equal opportunity also value free association highly, makes their action...
...used for after all: securing the rights of the week. How hypocritical. Would Mr. Gooen tell those pushing desegregation through the courts that they are wrong and that they should only sit on the sidelines and write editorials? And with abortion, it is not just the right to an equal education that is at stake, it is the right to life...
...many voters. But in the end, she went a long way toward convincing all but the most skeptical that she had the right stuff, not only to become the first woman and the first Italian American to run on a major party's national ticket, but to be equal to the stress of being a heartbeat away from the presidency. Continuously under a scrutiny more intense than was ever before applied to a vice-presidential candidate, she made few gaffes and gave no ground. With her candidacy hanging in the balance, she called a press conference to explain her unquestionably...