Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...medical deferments to emigrating. During the Vietnam War, there were gross inequities along race and class lines, despite the existence of a draft. Yes, the "volunteer" army is problematic, but its problems reflect those of the larger social context of our country. Only when we achieve full employment and equal access to education, housing and health care will we be able to resolve our severe inequities. These goals are attained by a massive reordering of national priorities, not by reallocating the relatively small amount of money which might be available if we were to pare the wages of draftees...
What burns me about the fabulous Mobil ads is that they perpetuate the popular myth that "the Government is our enemy and business is our friend." I would like equal time to suggest that if you have to trust your fate to either the Feds or to Mobil, choose the Feds...
...nosy. But many interview questions, like all those listed above, are now effectively off limits in job interviews. Personnel officials must manage to avoid sometimes sensitive subjects like race, religion, marital status and arrest records, or risk discrimination charges and perhaps endless legal battles. Since the mid-1960s, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and federal courts have so confined companies in a mass of dos and don'ts that about the only totally safe question to ask a potential employee is "Would you like a cup of coffee...
...hiring procedures by concentrating attention on the qualifications that count. Says James Cameron, vice president of personnel for Levi Strauss in San Francisco: "If the rules have had any effect, it has been to make us better interviewers. Those questions we used to ask were really extraneous." Robert Stenberg, equal employment planning manager for Ford in Dearborn, Mich., agrees that the guidelines have "sharpened our sensitivities and helped us focus on the criteria critical to the proper selection of people...
...hunting-gathering society that flourished before the dawn of history, she argues, man and woman were equal. Then, some time during the neolithic revolution, man realized that semen made babies. The consequence: women were reduced in stature and left uneducated, housebound, perpetually pregnant...