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...could have been election-year politics. Or maybe it was a case of male guilt. Whatever the reason, Congress last week unanimously approved measures to redress long-ignored economic injustices borne mostly by women...
There is room for technical debate in the U.S. over exactly how to calibrate the overall military balance and how to redress any imbalances that may have developed in particular categories of weapons or regions of the world. But the Administration seemed, certainly to Soviet ears, to be making a provocative political statement, especially when Reagan spoke of the need to establish what he called "a margin of safety." There is no question how that phrase translated into Russian: the Soviets were convinced that the U.S. was determined to force them back into a position of inferiority...
...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...