Word: redresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply, Jackson's campaign is morally bankrupt, and little he does now can redress the damage caused by his handling of the "Hymie" controversy and the racial demagoguery of campaign supporter Louis Farrakhan...
Were it not for the combined efforts of legal services agencies, law school legal and programs, and volunteers in the private bar, many of these people would have no access to legal services and consequently no opportunity to redress their wrongs through the legal system. The Reagan Administration--in its cut-and-gut approach to public assistance programs--has cut back funding for legal services. These cutbacks are already having drastic effects on legal services, and will have drastic effects on the poor community...
...racial discrimination that, as statistics reveal, still plagues the death penalty? For one thing, such racial discrimination is present not only in sentencing decisions, but also in the earlier stages of the criminal justice process Moreover, appellate review regardless of the percentage of death sentences overturned, does nothing to redress the imbalance of treatment by race...
...toward resolving this hypocrisy is twofold. The administration should not merely tolerate, but actually endorse, the Freshman Week minority activities. The spirit of cooperation should extend throughout the year, with the College involving minority student organizations in administrative planning that affects them. More important, however, Harvard should seek to redress the conditions that make these events so necessary--by increasing minority recruitment for positions throughout the Faculty. As a recently released affirmative action report indicates, minorities are highly underrepresented in both teaching and administrative positions at Harvard. Minority students have repeatedly cited the low number of minority faculty and administrators...
Louis's first claim about reverse discrimination is that it is "designed to remedy and redress past wrongs." The validity of other cases of redress is not questioned, he asserts, yet "affirmative action, which is based on the principle of redress, gets singled out for a special, vicious attack." Among such cases of redress he cites lawsuits brought against asbestos manufacturers 20 years after the original exposure to the workers. But in fact, his case points up the important deficiency in Louis's argument. The plaintiffs accuse the asbestos companies of being directly responsible for harming those who were exposed...