Words similar to affirmative-action
Example sentences for: affirmative-action
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Under the overmechanical assumptions of affirmative-action opponents themselves (and putting aside the racial IQ theories of Murray and some others), blacks would move up the list, and whites would move down.
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.
Proponents of the ingeniously named California Civil Rights Initiative, which would forbid all state government affirmative-action policies, routinely invoke the sentence from King's "I Have a Dream" speech looking forward to the day his children would be judged not by the "color of their skin" but by "the content of their character."
Obviously, the affirmative-action debate is an important if well-worn controversy.
Defending the settlement were Mara Liasson on Fox News Sunday ("Bad cases make bad law"), Roberts ("An indefensible case"), and Clarence Page on This Week ("This is not an affirmative-action case in the view of the civil-rights community").