Word: redressing
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...reacting to Soviet military superiority, Azrael said, the U.S. should consider a "careful ordering of priorities," and should seek an arms control program that would "redress imbalances...
...HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT countries voted recently in the United Nations to condemn the manufacture and promotion of infant formula. One nation--the United States--went on record in favor of this insidious offspring of a "free market." Harvard students this week have an opportunity to help redress this national disgrace; several campus groups are sponsoring petitions in House dining halls that encourage a boycott of all products made by the Nestle corporation--a major infant formula producer--in University food purchases...
Once the leaders of the rebellion were executed or dispersed, the British government admitted its previous errors-tacitly, of course-and sought to redress old wrongs. King George III, who had complained that he would go mad if his American colonies were lost, regained his spirits and proved a forgiving monarch. No more than a third of the colonists had supported the insurrection, in any event, and six years of bloodshed and privation were quickly forgotten in the era of good feeling that followed the war. The colonies were placed under a unified government for the first time...
...attempted to argue for or against preferential minority representation on the council. For the very notion of what constitutes an "oppressed minority" at Harvard is itself open to question as white gays and women, Asians, non-Black Hispanics, and middle-class Blacks conveniently pimp off the legitimate claims of redress made by the Black poor. "Third World"-ism here functions as a self-serving rhetorical device to obscure crucial historical differences and advance the interests of non-black minorities...
...democracy wall" in Peking to sell some of the 1,000 copies of the Wei trial transcript he had mimeographed. Agents of China's secret police, the Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrested some of the buyers. Liu then went to the PSB headquarters in Peking to seek redress for them...