Word: redresses
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...disturbed by the pseudo-liberal tone of the staff's position. The staff insists that it is a firm believer in affirmative action in theory. But affirmative action is not a theoretical doctrine; it is a complex public policy that tries to redress historical inequities. The staff, in recognizing only an artificially narrow interpretation of affirmative action, undermines the very policy it claims to support...
...like to see athletics department officials work with coaches, athletes and the faculty committee that oversees the department--and find ways to redress this imbalance by redistributing funds. Of course, that won't happen unless Toland and Cleary reveal the closely guarded details of their budget...
While his government debates possible new press restraints inspired by the frenzied coverage of royals, John Major is seeking redress the old-fashioned way. The British Prime Minister announced plans to initiate libel suits against two magazines for printing allegations that he had conducted an extramarital affair with a fashionable London caterer, Clare Latimer. The long-whispered rumor was printed last month in the satirical monthly Scallywag, and repeated, albeit skeptically, by the left-wing weekly New Statesman and Society. Latimer, 41, promised similar legal action...
...settlement. Yet Carey has gone to court (so far unsuccessfully) to challenge everything from Lacey's right to sit on the board to the government's right to issue rules for it. He has also tried to hamper the board's ability to hire staff, to seek redress in court or even to communicate with the rank and file through the Teamsters newsletter...
...part of the political biosphere, programs whose worth neither party would dare contest. But it was the overarching scheme, and dream, that fell into disfavor. Reform was no longer experienced as something performed for the people but as something performed on the people. In an age of belated racial redress, white America -- the rank and file, the lower-middle class -- felt itself under siege. With jolting suddenness, the old alliance fell apart. Liberalism was coded as the elevation of black grievances over white ones, the welfare of layabouts over that of workers...