Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets will not even consider a confederation, a halfway step to full unification. A change in this policy is infinitely more important than American goodwill...
...Even so, neither president sought to gloss over differences on two topics, the Soviets' call for cuts in naval forces and American anger at the continued flow of Soviet weapons to leftist rebels in El Salvador...
Clearly the comment refers to actions of "policy" taken by the government: the quotas required by affirmative action. But its phrasing also casts the problems facing minorities in a narrow, even paternalistic manner. It says that U.S. society will acknowledge a minority's problems only if they require policy amounting to obvious "special treatment." Just who delivers the treatment remains tantalizingly vague...
...House rejected a proposal that day by Speaker George Keverian '53 for a 50 percent increase in the capital gains tax, even after the speaker agreed not to make the increase retroactive for this fiscal year. After the 94-64 defeat, Keverian (D-Everett) retracted his $1 billion tax package from the floor...
...arrest of Jennifer Casolo is Cristiani's trump card. It is an attempt to prove to Bush that even those North Americans who peacefully or silently protest the right-wing government are implicit and explicit supporters of the guerrillas. Cristiani's message applies not only to religious and humanitarian workers in El Salvador, but to all of us here who would like to see the end of U.S. financing of the decade-long civil...