Word: backrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country is quite segregated economically means that early applicants tend to come from a more affluent socio-economic backround," Fitzsimmons says...
While the Nunn plan aims to promote civic-mindedness among all men and women, more affluent students will not be affected as financial aid is less of a concern. In a sense, as a result of class backround, one group can buy out of this community work requirement. This is a chilling reminder of draft practices in the 1960s and '70s, when most of those who actually served in Vietnam came from lower-income families...
...describing the backround for the event, the staff only partially heeds its own calls for fairness. The staff describes the 1980 s as a decade of "insensitivity and hostility to minority concerns" and condemns the Reagan Justice Department for seeking to roll back affirmative action. We agree with this assessment and remain critical of the Justice Department's failure to continue actively prosecuting civil rights cases...
...Diversity is the key to a successful program...The major emphasis is on broadening executives who, for the most part, come from a relatively narrow backround," said Robert R. Glauber, director of the AMP and professor of business administration...
...South African parliament currently consists of three houses, one each for the whites, the coloreds--people of mixed Black and white backround--and the Indian population...