Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...judicial boards and committees are composed of representatives in equal strength of employers and employees, presided over by a neutral arbitrator who casts the deciding vote. This neutral arbitrator has the opportunity to develop an extra-legal process of mediation by which the necessity of much litigation is avoided. It is usually stipulated that the agreements reached by mediation do not create precedents, but apply only to the particular cases in hand. The neutral arbitrator, if he has the ability and inclination, may in the course of his work by discussion and education establish standards of justice and fair dealing...
...Henry peartree, one of the founders and a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in France, has donated to the Chamber the sum of 10,000 francs as a prize fund, to be distributed in equal shares this year and next, for the best essay or treatise on the subject of "Toleration," economic, political or religious. All members of the University are eligible for this prize...
...make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find that I was so thoroughly and quickly classed as an ordinary 'low brow...
...stability of finance. A prominent business man a few days ago said publicly that what business most needs today is the infusion of the religious spirit. Industry today needs nothing so much as it needs the Golden Rule. And there is no corrective to lawlessness and social disorder to equal the sanctions of religion. Therefore when a man undertakes to be a teacher of religion, he is assuming a task that is fundamental to the welfare of our modern world...
...Cambridge is looking to the new fer moral support! From England comes the news that by a vote of 904 to 713 the plebiscite conducted by Cambridge University has rejected a propo a to admit women on equal terms with men. A debate at the Union and a straw vote showed that the undergraduate opinion was strongly against women entering the University. While the teaching staff was evenly divided, the graduates' vote confirmed the verdict of the student body, with the resultant defeat of the proposal...