Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghettos while at the same time sending a message to white communities that electing him would ensure that Blacks stayed out of their neighborhoods. Harold Washington changed this for a short time by keeping his promises of reform--winning fair and square and giving everyone, white and Black, an equal chance to work for the city or to have their neighborhood receive city funding, and by the time of his reelection, had begun to convince white voters that he was going to help both them and the city...
Even though there are an approximately equal number of Blacks and whites in the city, many more whites than Blacks are registered, and Blacks have poorer turnout percentages. In order for a Black candidate to win, they must get a large turnout of Black voters and win 15 to 20 percent of white voters. Washington had done this, but Evans could not even get the support of the Black community because he was running in opposition to interim Mayor Eugene Sawyer, a Black man, whose supporters did not take so kindly to Evans saying that he was the one Black...
Harvard, however, was unable to equal the first game performance in the second contest...
...Because the needs are so urgent, one must assume that the nation will eventually do what is required to create a quality of government equal to the challenges we face. At some point, we will have to raise the salaries of public servants, intensify our efforts to recruit good people to government, increase the opportunities for able civil servants to advance, and provide them the education and training they need to perform their responsibilities with distinction. Only when that time comes will universities be able to make their full contribution to the quality of government in America. It will...
...Africa, the disease is spread primarily by heterosexual intercourse and affects men and women in almost equal numbers. However, in the United States, victims are largely male homosexuals and drug abusers, and men outnumber women about...