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Affirmative action requires the contractor to do more than ensure employment neutrality with regard to race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. As the phrase implies, affirmative action requires the employer to make additional efforts to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of groups formerly excluded, even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions on the part of the employer. The premise of the affirmative action concept of the executive order is that unless positive action is undertaken to overcome the effects of systematic institutional forms of exclusion and discrimination, a benign neutrality in employment practices will...
...contributed a number of inventions to warfare and repression. The Spaniards bred slavehunting dogs, "Cuban hounds," that were exported to the United States. Spanish generals invented the system of concentrating a rural population in garrisons and declaring anyone outside them a rebel--a tactic that the United States would employ in Vietnam as its "strategic hamlets" policy. Cuban revolutionaries refined the technique of urban terrorism as far back as the Twenties...
...future, the store may employ women to patrol the aisles with concealed cans of mace, the store's day-time cashier said yesterday...
Whenever a job is available in a member's store, says Smith, the Association plans to notify the community so that it can employ as many local residents as possible in the Square. Beginning next year, it will hold a contest to decorate stores for Christmas, with awards for the designers, rather than the managers. This year's Christmas ornaments consist of strands of orange bulbs separated by reflecting squares of aluminum sheet, hanging over Massachusetts Ave. The Association has already planted some trees, which look kind of scrawny, but I guess their height is an asset. Smith says hopefully...
...least three state universities employ a lower percentage of women than Harvard: 8.3 per cent of the non-humanities employees at the University of Florida are women, 11.3 per cent of those at the University of California at Berkeley, and 12.2 per cent of those at the University of California at Los Angeles...