Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forced to play the passive role of "a poor, enfeebled thing." The EEOC has made little use of its "initiatory capabilities," opting instead for processing individual complaints when they are received. The Civil Rights Commission recommended broadening the EEOC's policing role, allowing EEOC rulings to supplant Justice Department lawsuits in complaints about discrimination. The report also said that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has hardly begun to use the enforcement authority granted under the Fair Housing...
JACKSON: Where men are judged more on character than on color. Where cooperation in many instances will supplant competition. Where man would begin to trust a democracy and not put so much faith in autocracy, which is what we have...