Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When men and women are placed together on an equal basis, it is common for a mutual admiration to develop. "No one says 'she's good for a woman' or 'he's good for a man,' they say 'Damn, there's a good hockey player!" says former Junior Varsity player Willa Brown, now right inner for Quincy House...
...doesn't stop there. Because of this "problem" with standardized tests, affirmative action programs tend to create a student body with a wide disparity of academic capabilities. Klitgaard's solution to the "problem": perhaps if Blacks (Third World students?) attended "slightly lesser insitutions where they might compete as intellectual equals," we could eventually reach a point when "Blacks (Third World students?) would end up academically equal to whites at all but the very bottom institutions"--the "ripple effect...
Wexler and Cunningham also sharply critized the Republican platform for its anti-ERA and abortion planks. "If the Republican's are committed to equal rights, why don't they have the ERA in their platform?" Wexler said...
...four more years of Carter is ludicrous. Where Carter has appointed more women, Blacks and Hispanics to the federal judiciary than all previous presidents combined, Reagan's record shows a complete lack of concern for such groups. Where Carter successfully pushed for extension of the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment, Reagan opposes the ERA. Where Carter undoubtedly would appoint justices who will safeguard civil liberties, Reagan and the platform he runs on state that nominees for the Supreme Court would be screened for their opposition to abortion; we pale at the thought of five clever, conniving William Rehnquists...
...whole. Duplicitous is too nice a word for the incumbent; he has proved himself a baldfaced liar. Just ask those who worked for him four years ago after he promised to reduce military spending, after he called nuclear power an undesirable "last resort," after he assured women that the Equal Rights Amendment would be a top priority of his administration...