Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The resultant navy has many strengths and a compensating pool of weaknesses. One of its strong points is that, in the event of hostilities, it would not have to protect any sea lines of communication because the U.S.S.R. is self-sufficient in a high proportion of strategic materials, and its...
The Lord Mayor and the police chief came to court prepared to say that, as far as they could tell, she had been wearing a bra. Without settling whether a bra should be required, the court recommended that the Army pay $21,000 in retribution, unemployment benefits, court costs and...
Who rides the rails these days? In the sparsely populated coach sections, many passengers are black families with irrepressibly active children; for them the unfettered train trip is clearly more comfortable and practical than airliner or bus. A number of elderly passengers, mostly occupying bedrooms and roomettes, relish the scenery...
The continuing attrition leads some Washington officials to hope that Castro's venture will eventually bog him down in a Viet Nam-style quagmire, despite his Soviet support. It is frequently pointed out that Cuba's manpower commitment in Africa is greater, in proportion to the country'...
...opinion, District Judge Fred W. Kaess called affirmative action a "vile misnomer" and "the antithesis of equal opportunity" if it simply meant proportionate job quotas without regard to past discrimination. He ruled there was no proof that police promotions and hiring had been discriminatory, and took issue with claims that the percentage of Detroit police employees who were black (17%) was less than the 44% proportion of blacks in the city's population. Applicants for police jobs, the judge pointed out, were drawn from a three-county labor market in which 18.7% of the eligible workers were black...