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The most important "affirmative action" program in American history was the GI Bill of Rights, a thoroughly defensible program in which a grateful nation justifiably made it possible for millions of veterans to attend colleges and universities after... Full Article at Balkinization
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There is no consensus among Dalits about how to measure the community's development. Neither academia, nor the state has come out with any tool to do this. Full Article at DNA India
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New Haven, Connecticut, firefighters (L) file into the hearing room as US Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor (R-back to camera) greets wellwishers on July 15, 2009 before the third day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on... View Photo »
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Students United for Nebraska, the student coalition that fought a constitutional ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action (the ban passed).
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Salary: $50,000, minimum. For best consideration, submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and affidavit along with names, addresses, and phone numbers of 3 references by 1/08/10. Applications accepted until position is filled. Full Article at Medical Library Association
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Cape Town — President Jacob Zuma yesterday announced an impressive list of 19 names for the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Council, which will play a critical role in driving the transformation of the economy. Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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Pretoria — President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday announced the names of those who will serve in the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Council. Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak is seen on the monitors of television cameras as he announces a major liberalization of the Malaysian economy, relaxing a host of restrictions on foreign investment, including a controversial rule requiring business... View Photo »
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If I were designing a quote-unquote affirmative action program today, that's what I would be using, the 10-20-30 formula ... We are finding more and more sophisticated ways of doing this on a nonracial basis.
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OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Read who they are and realize what they want to do ... OBAMA'S CZARS CZAR Czar Position Summary Richard Holbrooke AfghanistanCzar Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Full Article at FOX News
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France has introduced legislation to bring 50/50 gender parity to French board rooms by 2015. All companies listed on the French stock exchange would be required to stock their boards with 50 percent women. Full Article at The Frisky
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Students United for Nebraska, the student coalition that fought a constitutional ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action (the ban passed).
SOURCE: Phi Beta Cons -
If I were designing a quote-unquote affirmative action program today, that's what I would be using, the 10-20-30 formula ... We are finding more and more sophisticated ways of doing this on a nonracial basis.
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We need to go beyond affirmative action and CSR efforts could be given a fillip through fiscal relief. These issues need to be debated threadbare for their possible incorporation in new Bill
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The real killers at Fort Hood in Texas are political correctness, affirmative action and the cult of diversity.
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The past three decades have seen unions embrace left-wing positions on everything from affirmative action to gay marriage to the war in Iraq.
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Now that the government has taken over, it must enforce its own laws of equal opportunity, contract compliance and fairness. These are government-run companies now. And this is a critical moment ... They cannot ignore affirmative action laws. This applies to jobs, dealership contracts, advertisements an...
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This is going to take some affirmative action to protect the rights of people like me
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In the (second) staff meeting the Speaker apologised if he unintentionally offended anyone. Given South Africa's difficulty history, employment equity matters can easily cause offence and should be handled with the utmost sensitivity. If the Speaker has inadvertently offended anyone, he would like to of...
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The City of Cape Town far exceeds most of the benchmark targets for employment equity
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The low pay of school support staff is a result of continued undervaluation and gender discrimination in their pay rates ... Firstly the Government closes down the pay and employment equity unit established to address this type of issue, then it takes a zero pay increase policy and tries to apply it acr...
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The deadline for parties to give, I hope, affirmative action is Friday.
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reflects a balanced approach to move forward ... If we do get an affirmative action, then I hope we can have an agreement that can be sent to the board of governors.
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The deadline for the parties to give, I hope, affirmative action is [October 23] -- two days from now. And if we do get an affirmative action, then I hope we will have an agreement that we can send to the [IAEA] Board of Governors
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Every time the right takes a stand against immigrants, against affirmative action, against gay rights, they are flying in the face of what it means to be an American
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I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota
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So it seems our very own Obama-fool, the penultimate proof positive that affirmative action uses race as a launching pad to propel folks into positions for which they're unqualified, has won the Nobel Peace Prize ... One could easily approach this as theatre of the absurd, insofar as the Obama-fool hasn...
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The lawyers at the equality ombudsman have said it is illegal (for a university to apply affirmative action), and even so they have chosen not to do anything
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ZC makes no apology for the fact that there was a policy of affirmative action before ... There are 13 million black people in Zimbabwe and you're not going to will that away - they had to become more integrated.
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Our government should copy from South Africa where programmes like the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) have been formulated to help the citizenry of that country
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I did not realize [it] had an affirmative action quota
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I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it.
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I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota ... but that is the only thing I can think of for this news.
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Consider this: Bucknell has created a campus culture such that an independent student newspaper, The Bucknellian, won't even print an outside advertisement critical of the university ... Along with the college's ban on handbills criticizing the stimulus plan and on affirmative action bake sale protests,...
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Obama is no dummy. He knows that you would never pass reparations. He knows you would never pass any of this stuff. This is all affirmative action.
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