Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Former Presidents Act of 1958, seeking to rectify such instances of national neglect, provided a $25,000 annual pension and $50,000 a year for office and taff, sums that have steadily escalated. Now each ex-President is entitled to a lifetime annual salary equal to that of a Cabinet Secretary (currently $80,100). Widows get $20,000 a year. The retiree also gets $150,000 for a staff during the first 30 months and $96,000 a year thereafter, unlimited nonpolitical postage and a furnished office. The expenses are flexible. "The law says the office must be 'suitably...
...British and French INF: 263 delivery vehicles consisting of 64 British missiles, 55 British bombers, 98 French missiles and 46 French bombers. Instead, the Soviets have publicly insisted since November. 1981 that the USSR be permitted to exclude from any Soviet-American INF agreement a Soviet INF arsenal equal to the combined total of British and French nuclear delivery vehicles...
...sending to Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian-Americans is clear: It really does not matter whether one scores very low or high on the "meritocracy" tests, if you are a minority of color in America every conceivable effort will be made by the white majority to deny you equal access and keep you at the bottom of the economic ladder...
...addition to questioning the effectiveness. Bok argued that divesting only from South Africa-related companies would be inconsistent, since there are "groups who might not view South Africa as a special case and would press the University with equal fervor to extend its embargo to avoid any connection with Guatemala, El Salvador, and the Soviet Union, and other countries toward which they had strong moral objections...
...University of California's female employees are paid substantially less than male university employees for work of equal value, according to a study released last month by a law school student there...