Word: aa
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What exactly is Affirmative Action? Affirmative Action (AA) is a program with the purpose of achieving equal opportunity for all in education and employment. AA means more than ensuring non-discrimination. Its objectives as stated in Revised Order 4 are clear...
...specific and result oriented procedures which a contractor commits himself to apply every good faith effort. The object of these procedures plus such efforts is equal employment opportunity. Procedures without effort to make them work are meaningless; and effort; undirected by specific and meaningful procedures is inadequate. An acceptable AA program must include analysis of areas within which the contractor is deficient in the utilization of minority groups and women, and further, goals and time tables to which the contractor's good faith efforts must be directed to correct the deficiencies and, thus to increase materially the utilization of minorities...
Then came grad school, where Varney gradually worked his way up from Class A to AA to AAA (in baseball grad school, they don't even give out B's, much less C's), and which eventually led to his place under the Florida sun on the White Sox bullpen bench in Sarasota...
While the Crimson did get a chance to play the Montreal Expos' AA team, most of the action was just five of six inning stretches, according to Park...
...team he captains will head for Day tons Beach on Friday for a well-deserved change of scenery. During their 8-day stay in the Sunshine State, the Crimson will play 17 games against such opponents as Milligan College, EmbryRiddle, Niagara, and the West Palm Beach Expos, the class AA affiliate of the Montreal Expos...