Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's doubles team of Michael Zimmerman and Michael Shyjan, ranked fifth in the nation, had no problems with Penn's Alex Schmid and Jeff Miller, cruising to a 6-4, 6-4, victory. Shyjan had previously dispatched his singles opponent, Glenn Wellin, with equal ease, 6-7, 6-1, 6-0, but Zimmerman had dropped a three-set decision to Crimson-killer Danny Levine...
...mission is to insure that we help to make arrangements that allow students with disabilities an equal chance on the playing field," Dingman says...
Trottier says Harvard, as it stands, really has no other policy beyond section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which is the civil rights act guaranteeing qualified people with disabilities equal opportunity under...
Blacks, who feel they waited longest and endured most in the fight for equal opportunity, are uneasy about being supplanted by Hispanics or, in some areas, by Asians as the numerically largest and most influential minority -- and even more, about being outstripped in wealth and status by these newer groups. Because Hispanics are so numerous and Asians such a fast-growing group, they have become the "hot" minorities, and blacks feel their needs are getting lower priority. As affirmative action has broadened to include other groups -- and to benefit white women perhaps most of all -- blacks perceive it as having...
...other parts of the world. Many books treasured as classics by prior generations are now seen as tools of cultural imperialism. In the extreme form, this thinking rises to a value-deprived neutralism that views all cultures, regardless of the grandeur or paucity of their attainments, as essentially equal...