Word: accountants
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...clear separation of 84 'regular' admissions places from 16 'special' places for minorities, together with the use of different numerical cutoff points for the two groups, was held to be unlawful.... Under the Bakke ruling, it was judged permissible to take race explicitly into account as one factor in making university admissions decisions, provided that the institution can show that the practice is necessary to promote a substantial interest...
...most constructive and well-conceived admissions programs are those that view affirmative action in relation to the educational benefits of diversity. They may take various characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or gender into account as potential 'plus' factors (among many others) when evaluating candidates, but they do not assign such characteristics an overriding value...
...Admissions decisions are not isolated, atomistic events," Rudenstine says in his report. "They focus on individuals, but each decision is made in the context of others, where the pattern of the whole is also taken into account...
...only the chairman of Intel but also those of Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor and other companies; they expressed their misgivings last September in an urgent letter to Representative Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The letter noted that foreign students account for one-third to one-half of all those enrolled in U.S. graduate schools in science and engineering. "It should be no surprise," the executives wrote, "that highly skilled U.S. engineers are not always available on a timely basis." Microchip giant Intel, for example, hired 300 engineers with master...
...great weakness in my advocacy of "ideological motivation" is that I have no systematic account of social oppression and dislocation. Yet I can suggest an outline of such a theory, based on my experience as a participant in and observer of our legal system...