Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politics of 1969 were ripe with promise. The promise that a freer, more equal society was about to be born. The efforts to make America extend its promises of liberty and justice to women, minorities and the poor. The promise that a younger generation could rise up and present an alternative direction for the nation...
Where's "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make?" And how about, "All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be?" There are famous sayings out there that don't sound so ridiculous. Why can't we have them...
...Presidents are always calling for bipartisanship, President Bush's favorite postelection mantra. But bipartisanship must mean more than Congress always giving in to the President's wishes. "The duty of an opposition," a hoary British political maxim has it, "is to oppose." When the opposition controls an equal branch of Government, opposition is a duty that can be pursued gaily and without remorse...
...program, however, has met some criticism, particularly from students and higher education officials. One major criticism suggests that the proposed shift in student aid allocations runs counter to the ideals established by the Civil Rights movement, which allowed everyone to have an equal opportunity to afford college. Daniel Baer concludes in a Crimson editorial that "the Nunn bill would do more to upset equality of educational opportunity than anything since Plessy v. Ferguson...
...result of soaring costs and fear of indebtedness, a growing majority of lower- and middle-class young people are unable to afford college under the current system. The recent decline in Black and Hispanic enrollment demonstrates that the current student aid programs are not adequate to assure equal opportunity in education. And it seems very unlikely, with looming budget cuts and our political fear of tax hikes, that any new student aid programs are on the horizon...