Word: equalizing
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...municipal government and state and federal environmental agencies, the city would establish "an absolute cap" on the number of new parking spaces, according to Councillor Edward A. Cyr. However, the city would be allowed to grant permits for up to 900 more commercial spaces if it removed an equal number of illegal spaces...
Last week he persuaded the state legislature to follow his lead and vote for $2.8 billion in income and sales taxes. Coupled with an almost equal amount in spending cuts, the money will not only allow New Jersey to dig itself out of debt but should also provide additional state education aid to relieve homeowners of one of the most onerous property-tax rates in the U.S. Here too Florio soaked the rich: the legislature approved a plan to shift the bulk of its education assistance from the wealthiest to the poorest districts by 1995, leaving the affluent to make...
...fatigued and much of the world puzzled. At issue is the eternal Canadian problem of a balance between the special role of Quebec, the only province with an overwhelming French-speaking majority in an officially bilingual country of 26.5 million, and regions that object to having other-than-equal status in the confederation...
Other groups -- most notably Canada's 700,000 aboriginal and metis people -- insisted that they were equally deserving of special status. Said Ethel Blondin, a legislator from the Western Arctic and a Dene Indian: "There are 53 aboriginal languages and cultures we feel are equal to Quebec's -- no greater and no less...
...fact, some blacks even contemplate a return to neighborhood schools. Hal Sieber, executive editor of the Carolina Peacemaker, a black newspaper, calls it a desire for "equal but separate" communities, a twist on the old doctrine of segregation. Sadly, the cycle of division, passed from parent to child, endures, as last winter's tempest at prestigious Page High School showed. A student newspaper poll on race relations prompted an outcry from black students, who complained about inadequate representation on the cheerleading squad and in advanced classes, among other things. Even a state championship basketball team drew fire...