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After the Detroit decision, why shouldn't South Boston be angry? Its grievance against the suburbs--like the South's grievance against the North--is real, despite its usefulness to the people who throw rocks at schoolbuses. But the redress of that grievance will be likelier when education is better and when black and white people unite to obtain it. The integration of Boston's schools should hasten that...
...super-decree was actually a package of the most drastic anti-inflation measures any European government has attempted. Premier Mariano Rumor's government imposed them two weeks ago to control rampant inflation (currently 17% per year). The moves will soak up $4.8 billion and help redress Italy's massive balance-of-trade deficit, which has reached $1 billion per month...
...Jamaican eyes, Manley's power play is only an attempt to redress a neocolonialist relationship. Between 1949 and the mid-1960s, five American corporations and one Canadian firm bought 225,000 acres of bauxite-rich land, or 13% of the island's total land area, mostly from private owners. Ore exports from the mines reached 7.4 million tons in 1973, and taxes and royalties on the shipments that year brought in $25 million, roughly 40% of Jamaica's foreign currency. But under the complicated tax system, the Jamaican take on each ton shipped dropped from...
...more or less equally qualified applicants a class it expects to be interesting and diverse. Admitting more women would strengthen both efforts, and imply no lowering of academic standards. At the same time, adopting a one-to-one policy would place Harvard in the forefront of a movement to redress the cumulative effects of centuries of discrimination. "Sex-blind" admissions, working with the status quo, does not address itself to the need to improve the socio-economic standing of women in America...
Worried that SALT I could enable the Soviets to attain this advantage, some Senators demanded that SALT II redress the U.S.'s numerical inferiority. With the American superiority in the number of warheads, the demand was plainly unreasonable and unrealistic; it was intended, at least by some Senators, to toughen the U.S. bargaining position. The Soviets responded with a tough line of their own. Their negotiators reportedly declared that they would agree to numerical missile equality with the U.S. only if Washington 1) removed its nuclear-submarine bases from Scotland and Spain, 2) reduced the number of its aircraft...