Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, sponsored by the National Association for Equal Opportunity (NAFEO), will be completed this spring, Klitgaard said...
Berry and Ramirez were the dissenters in the 6-to-2 vote that opposed the affirmative-action plan of the Detroit police department. The commission's statement deplored the use of quotas, saying that they create "a new class of victims" by denying equal rights to majority groups...
...Urban League's bleak findings were bolstered by another report released the same day that dealt with job discrimination. In a survey of major companies in the Boston area, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found blacks severely underrepresented in key industries. Even though minorities are generally better educated in Boston than in most other areas of the U.S., they are disproportionately concentrated in lower-paying jobs. Not one of Boston's electric, gas and sanitary-service companies has minority sales employees...
Marchand is splendid too: he can trip over his feelings or break the viewer's heart with equal dexterity. At film's end Kurys reveals that Marchand and Huppert are playing the director's own parents, 30 troubled years ago. Autobiography is often the excuse for retrospective vindictiveness, but Kurys is too mixed in her sympathies, too talented at her craft, to harbor such notions. She knows that filming well is the best revenge. -By Richard Corliss
...dismantling of federal protection of minority rights guaranteed by the Constitution. As Ralph Ness, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights--a coalition of 160 minority groups--puts it. "Rather than having effective remedies to eliminate discrimination, we're going to move to "remedies" skin to separate but equal with this Commission...