Does the first generation have any responsibility to uphold the images of the group as they seek economic and social parity?

The overall mission of MBDA is to achieve economic parity for the minority business community.

After reaching economic parity, high-income earners of a traditional low-status group may still not achieve integration in the majority culture.

It was supposed to be a symbol of new strength and unity, a sign that Europe had finally achieved economic parity with the United States.

Regardless of form, the substance of his invitation lends itself to the interpretation that he wants a quick bootstrap pull to economic parity.

The world is striving for economic parity, implying a vast increase in greenhouse emissions or an unpalatable proliferation of nuclear capability.

The commitment is to bring Easterners to economic parity in a decade.

Now it is the fight for economic parity.

It's encouraging that minority-owned firms are growing fast, but economic parity remains elusive.

Building stronger black institutions and communities, he argues, will create economic and social parity - and common ground - between whites and blacks.