Word: factor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly practical for Rwanda to try the more than 120,000 Hutu militants held on charges relating to the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. "The government is concentrating on the organizers of the genocide," says Mutiso. "Eventually, they'll release the bulk of prisoners who confess and repent." One factor that may boost attendance at Kigali's soccer stadium by the ghoulishly curious: The execution method hasn't been announced...
...having my brother on the team is too bad," Blake said. "Eventually you have to get out of this place. I understand that, and it didn't factor...
...fall, is to give every applicant more attention so the best can be spotted. But Berkeley is going to that trouble for reasons beyond academic altruism. After one of the biggest affirmative-action fights anywhere in the nation, the University of California board of regents banned race as a factor in admitting this year's class. Fearing a sizable drop in minority enrollment, some supporters of the new plan hoped that the redesigned admissions criteria would sustain campus diversity, without taking account of race per se, after the ban went into effect...
According to Nicholas Christenfeld, one of the researchers quoted in a story by The Associated Press, there may be "some psychological factor that can exert its impact cumulatively over the years...At every stage it's a little tiny depressant to be called PIG, or a little tiny boost to your esteem to be called...
...hand, woe unto the individual who makes a negative judgement about a minority individual on basis of race. On the other, affirmative action, a system which makes race an important factor in judging an individual, is lauded as a social palliative, correcting racist American society. These are irreconcilable positions; one cannot back both a race-blind society and support racial preferences...