Word: equalling
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...such efforts develop beyond bare beginnings? Much may depend on Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali; and his record in promoting reform is, to put it charitably, mixed. One example: while the U.N. generates a mountain of policy statements and proclamations about women's rights, its own record as an equal-opportunity employer is poor. By this year women were supposed to hold 25% of executive jobs, but the actual figure will be only about 16.6%. The reason, says Ciceil Gross, former president of the Group on Equal Rights for Women at the U.N., is that "there is no will...
...better than this. In every previous generation, black America has produced leaders who brought out the best in their countrymen--people like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall and, of course, King, who broadened the American Dream by insisting that it applied in equal measure to everyone. Farrakhan and Chavis would substitute a cramped and insular nightmare for that all-encompassing and inspiring vision. Any march they lead is bound to be a journey to nowhere...
Captain Everett Greene, the highest ranking Navy officer to face a court-martial since World War II, was acquitted this afternoon of charges that he sexually harrassed two female subordinates. As the Navy's top equal-opportunity officer, Greene was in charge of eradicating the abuses he was accused of committing. The evidence against him, however, consisted of suggestive cards and gifts that made the women feel uneasy. "It was a weak case," reports Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The only thing they could have really pinned on him was conduct unbecoming of an officer, and even that was going...
...says while most people agree that each individual should have equal access to health care without ability to pay, there doesn't seem to be a vehicle to realize that goal besides the government...
Christopher announced today that the Bosnia peace talks will be held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, starting on October 31. TIME's Douglas Waller reports that the State Department sought a large facility that has roughly equal houses for each president -- where, as State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns put it, "they don't have to bump into each every morning over orange juice. They're all presidents and they don't like each other. If you put Milosevic in a building that's nicer than Tudjman's, there are going to be problems at the very...