Word: equalizing
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...impact of discriminatory hiring practices and few would argue that some progress has not been made they have succeeded because of strong federal support for such measures in the face of local indifference, or outright hostility. But the Reagan Administration has not only repudiated its leadership role in advancing equal opportunity. It has also actively worked to undermine strong historical and legal precedents for affirmative action...
...With equal conviction, many of Hart's supporters look beyond the primary season and hardheadedly view him as the Democrat most likely to unseat Ronald Reagan in November. At .the Democratic caucus in Cumberland, Me., for example, some 70 participants spent an hour discussing the candidates' electability. Said Geologist Frederick Bragdon: "I didn't feel the Democrats were putting forward the best candidate to defeat Ronald Reagan. After New Hampshire, I see Gary Hart as a potential candidate who can do that." For Tom Puckett, 30, of Savannah, not even his personal uncertainty about Hart...
Eldest Daughter Maureen, 43, has also caused controversy, but of a different sort. Her longtime support of the Equal Rights Amendment (which Reagan opposes) and blunt opinions provoked archconservative Activist Terry Dolan to request last week that she be " muzzled." There is little chance of that. The President said last week that he was "completely satisfied" with Maureen's performance as a consultant on women's issues to the Republican National Committee...
...greatest of all American soul singers. He sang high and hard, like Jackson, and like him, projected a dazzling sexual aura. Jackson's sexuality is more ethereal?Wilson in performance was like a tomcat?but both singers share a grounding in music that is almost equal parts soul and show...
...separate the cities from the nation." Seven years later Lewis Mumford observed that "today we begin to see that the improvement of cities is not matter for small one sided reforms; the task of city design involves the vaster task of rebuilding our civilization." Both statements have at least equal, if not greater, meaning today...