Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senators and 181 Representatives rolled north from Washington on a special 14-car train to a red-white-and-blue- buntinged Philadelphia in honor of the occasion. The original event at the Constitutional Convention was the resolution of a big state-little state fight that, presto, gave states equal standing in the Senate and strength reflecting population in the House. The anniversary proved a high point of Philadelphia's occasionally turbulent Bicentennial festivities...
...told how Nidal's group had brutally murdered Natasha Simpson, 11, daughter of an American journalist, in the Christmas 1985 massacre at the Rome airport. "I have an eleven-year-old daughter," said North, melodramatically. He offered a challenge. "I'll be glad to meet Abu Nidal on equal terms anywhere in the world, O.K.? But I am not willing to have my wife and my four children meet Abu Nidal or his organization on his terms...
Alan Bloom, the author of "The Closing of the American Mind," bemoans the relativism which he says holds away over the minds of the young. All things are thought to be equal--good and bad are merely labels, and therefore mean nothing. But one wonders if its complement--mindless absolutism--and the conviction that the world is made up of some angels and some devils, bodes any better...
...they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions of design in the new Republic, insist that elites matter and are valuable. They imply that the democratic task is not to level but to create space for the exceptional while protecting general access to it with doctrines of equal rights...
...open the possibility of a new examination of the "mess." Justices William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White have indicated a willingness to lower some church-state barriers, and Antonin Scalia, a conservative who joined the court last year, dissented from overturning a Louisiana law that required equal school treatment for creation science, deeming the court's work on the establishment clause "embarrassing." Powell's replacement, who will become President Reagan's third court appointment, may create a new 5-4 majority favoring a less rigid approach in some church-state cases...