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Example sentences for: affirmative-action

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Let's start with a simple, central factual error in the first substantive paragraph about Alexis: "After she left the Labor Department, she set up a firm to advise companies on how to comply with those [affirmative-action] regulations."
Obviously, the affirmative-action debate is an important if well-worn controversy.
As Lemann admits at the end of the book, both sides in the affirmative-action debate accept the assumptions of meritocracy, "that it's good for the country to have a designated, educationally derived elite."
Only six of 74 public colleges, universities, and graduate programs in California and Texas suffered losses in minority enrollment following affirmative-action bans.
The Army implemented its affirmative-action policy in the mid-'70s, responding to rising resentment of white superiors among the black rank and file, which had resulted in race riots on bases.