Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While she admits that women do not necessarily have a place equal to their male peers at Harvard, she thinks that the formation of a Radcliffe bond to overcome these barriers is not the solution. "Where we are excluded, you have to deal with it on an individual basis, not an institutional one," she says...
...most undergraduates ignore or even laugh off the idea of a separate women's community, "there are women, a substantial amount, for whom that community does exist," Walsh says. She adds that as society moves farther away from the 1970s with the women's movement and the pressure for equal opportunity, "Women are going to see the need to rely on each other...
Horner equates the attitude of those who feel associating with Radcliffe is a sign of weakness with immigrants who change their names in an effort to assimilate. "It's denying one's identity in order to feel full and equal," she says...
That may be, the court replied, but state death-penalty laws still cannot be held on that basis to violate 14th Amendment guarantees of equal protection under the law. Writing for a 5-to-4 majority, Justice Lewis Powell assumed that the study was valid but said it did not prove discrimination in McCleskey's case or in Georgia's death sentencing generally. "Because discretion is essential to the criminal justice process, we would demand exceptionally clear proof before we would infer that the discretion has been abused." To raise successful equal-protection objections, a defendant has to prove discrimination...
Rules vary from league to league, but basically each team starts the season with a set limit of real dollars (in the American Dreams, $260) with which to assemble an imaginary team of 23 real major leaguers, hired at a cutthroat auction that is equal parts puzzle and poker game. Up to 13 players can be held over from the previous year; the rest are purchased on draft day. The players -- nine pitchers, six infielders, five outfielders, two catchers and a designated hitter -- compete, in aggregate, in eight statistical categories over the course of the 162-game regular season...