Word: disproportionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I grant the right to strike for better work conditions, but great disproportion exists when an essential working force like the Transport Workers Union can flout a court order, rob the labor movement of its dignity, and create hardship for New York City's populace [Jan. 14]. It...
What Friedman meant--and made quite clear--was that a federal law requiring the fair employment of Negroes would be unenforceable in the face of popular bias, and that because of the resulting corruption of the market mechanism in this sphere, the Negro would continue to suffer serious underemployment. Under...
Wagner said that the Supreme Court's ruling (which gives the federal courts power to determine whether the apportionment of seats in state legislatures violates the Constitution) will be a great weapon in eliminating the "disproportion in representation between cities and rural areas."
Such bits are themselves the birdseed scattered through The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals, the agreeable useless information that spices its usefulness. For the layman-though the specialist, whether on the bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency...
Channeling all the federal ducation funds through state legislatures would perpetuate the disproportion of money going to the "upstate" rural districts over the under-represented cities. This situation now exists with the result that in the South many city children are taught under inferior conditions, while the size and quality...