Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compelling reason to integrate the final clubs would exist if their discrimination excluded women from an equal opportunity to succeed in America. Our government does not, and should not, tolerate discrimination by federal agencies, public schools or even private firms. To do so would deny citizens the guarantee of a level playing field that justifies the unequal outcomes that may arise from free competition...
...liberal argument for tolerance at Harvard has denegrated beyond the easygoing belief that, because it is impossible to ascertain any universal standard, all points of view are equal (hence none really worth passionate argument, deep analysis or stalwart defense), into the strident assertion that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight or way of life is elitist or anti-democratic--and therefore immoral. One must not simply accept another's lifestyle, but celebrate it as just as valid as one's own. Or be branded a bigot...
...have 15 union republics, but we also have smaller, autonomous republics. Equality for these people does not exist yet, and we must make all peoples equal. I come from Abkhazia, an autonomous republic within Georgia. For 42 days in 1918 we were an independent state. Then Georgia destroyed the Abkhaz government and subjugated us. Today, we want to make an agreement on an equal basis with Georgia and with Russia and create our own small republic. We want this to preserve our language, our culture, our history, so the people will not disappear...
...Detroit-based Welfare Rights Organization says similar candidates will run this fall in the Oakland mayoral race and legislative contests in Michigan and Maryland. A veteran welfare- rights lobbyist who earned a college degree in human-services planning, Stevens expects to be included in candidate debates and get equal radio and TV time. "We have homeless people fighting every day for food and shelter," she says. "Someone has to speak for them. That's what I intend...
...Azerbaijanis denounced the government, publicly burning their red party cards. Soviet forces killed 20 demonstrators in Georgia. Fueled by anger over chronic unemployment, housing shortages and catastrophic damage to the environment, a spate of violent riots in Tadzhikistan, Kirghizia and Kazakhstan turned anti-Russian. With less bloodshed but equal vehemence, national movements in the Ukraine, Moldavia and Belorussia are demanding an end to Russian domination. Since December 1986, at least 408 people have died in clashes around the empire. No fewer than 60 million Soviet citizens live outside their home republics, and the ethnic upheavals have made...