Word: redresses
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...male begemony in the broader sense is clearly shown in the lack of political support given to mobilizing resources on behalf of the feminist cause. Not only do women face basic discrimination in schools banks, and personnel offices, but they suffer sexist bias in any pursuit of a genuine redress of civil or criminal grievances. The system is self-perpetuating, since...
...reasons for last May's demonstration, coming in the wake of renewed bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor, were the Government Department's "open-chair" policy toward Henry A. Kissinger '50 and its complicity in the Indochina war. But how is a student to seek redress of these grievances? The Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities states that "No violation of the rights of members of the University, nor any failure to meet responsibilities, should be interpreted as justifying any violation of the rights of members of the University." Yet, there is no institutional mechanism by which students...
...progress. Often, the only such indications are numerical. The long battle against the dual school systems in the South would not have been advanced without court-enforced accounting, whether it was called "guidelines" or racial "quotas." Clearly, some push toward proportionality cannot be ruled out in every effort to redress social injustice...
...offered no support for any treaty that would include sanctions. As for the Middle East combatants, Eban claimed that terrorism was simply "a recognized arm of Arab governments in a policy of war against Israel." Arabs consider that the only way to rid the world of terrorism is to redress the grievances of the Palestinians...
...system has been undermined by federal income tax rate cuts that have benefited the rich most of all, and by great increases in sales, property and Social Security taxes, which bear most heavily on the poor. Capital gains taxes, so the argument goes, must be raised in order to redress the balance...