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Angry critics charged that if the mind had an innate structure, different people (or classes, sexes, and races) could have different innate structures, justifying discrimination.
Reforms focused partly on immigrants, following testimony from the General Accounting Office estimating that slightly more than half of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits provided to elderly persons were collected by noncitizens in 1995 [ 13 14 ] . In justifying PRWORA [ 15 ] , the House Ways and Means Committee stated that it had been a basic tenet of US immigration policy since 1882 that legal immigrants should not be eligible for public benefits.
It can be, alas, a business of an entirely good sort or needful sort, justifying itself in the marketplace.
I was unable to find any comment by the author justifying the use and application of the (million-word British) International Corpus of English (ICE-GB).
In Madrid, an editorial in El Mundo Wednesday took Primakov to task for justifying Russia's opposition to the bombing of Serbia by citing the example of Basque separatism in Spain.