Word: redresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attention should also be called to the current attacks by the government on affirmative action programs designed to remedy and redress past wrongs. Affirmative action is not a new idea. Reparations were paid after the World Wars, and lawsuits brought against asbestos manufacturers 20 years after the original crime of exposing workers to the risk of cancer--these cases of redress are recognized as valid. Similarly, the idea of redressing 400 years of terror, brutality and economic discrimination against Blacks was gaining currency until just recently...
...affirmative action tampers with cherished, purely "meritocratic" ideals. At Harvard, students and admissions officers have openly admitted that it helps one's admissions chances to be the child of an alumnus. But none of this is considered dangerous, or unjust. Affirmative action, which is based on the principle of redress, gets singled out for a special, vicious attack...
From this international attitude arose such organizations as UNESCO and the Non-Aligned Nations Conferences, amid various calls for a "New World Economic Order." This new order would supposedly redress the imbalance of wealth between the developed industrial nations and the Lesser Developed Countries (LDC's), but has instead led to the present tenuous situation...
Moscow's position was both bogus and brazen. It was the Soviet Union that had upset the balance in the first place by deploying the mobile, triple-warhead SS-20 ballistic missile. The West Europeans urged Washington to redress the imbalance by getting the Soviets to cut back on their SS-20s while NATO evened the scales with some new weapons on its side. Nor did the Soviets quit while they were ahead. Despite declaration of a moratorium on SS-20s, they pushed ahead to complete new missile sites that had previously been under construction...
...would have been a very good deal indeed for the U.S. The Soviet Union would have finally sanctioned the introduction of new U.S. weapons in Western Europe. In doing so, Moscow would have tacitly conceded that it had created an imbalance and that the West was entitled to redress it. The Soviets would have also abandoned their claim to compensation for the British and French nuclear forces. A freeze on Asian SS-20s would have enabled the U.S. to assure China, Japan and South Korea that European arms control was not being conducted at their expense. Under the plan...