Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Long Walk Home, at least, gets points for making the audience's white surrogate a woman and for giving equal emotional weight to the black woman who spurs her toward responsible action. In Montgomery in 1955, blacks are boycotting city buses until they are allowed to sit wherever they please. ! Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) must walk nine miles to her job as maid for the Thompson family. And Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek) must take a painful journey too, from the blinkered bourgeoisie to courageous solidarity with her sisters under the skin...
This approach acknowledges the religious origins of Christmas while giving equal consideration to other groups who consider the middle of December a sacred season...
...that Tyminski had links to the former Communist government's secret service. No less disturbingly, the book devotes an entire chapter to Tyminski's call for Poland to arm itself with 100 medium- range nuclear missiles "so that we can work in peace and feel ourselves fully independent and equal to other free countries...
...Afrikaans weekly Vrye Weekblad. "Now it is seen rather as the point where Afrikaners became accepted as an African tribe and determined that they had a right to the soil." The survival of the nation will depend on whether Afrikaners fully accept that their black fellow countrymen share an equal right to the land of South Africa...
...because it wanted to. The Swiss Supreme Court in Lausanne declared that Appenzell's 4,500 women over age 20 did have the right to vote. The justices, responding to a petition by two Appenzell women, ruled that a 1981 amendment to the constitution declaring men and women equal before the law should take precedence over cantonal legislation...