Word: factor
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University officials cited the deregulation of the electricity industry in Massachusetts, prompted by Electric Restructuring Act of 1997 that took effect on March 1, as a key factor in deciding to spin off the energy plant to Commonwealth Energy...
Intellectuals told us that affirmative action was a mere "plus factor" used in cases where the qualifications of applicants were excruciatingly equal. They told us that affirmative action was the lightest of feathers, landing gently on the scales of admission(and justice), tipping those scales ever so slightly in favor of "underrepresented minorities." They told us affirmative action was a temporary solution, implemented to help achieve social equality, until society could achieve equality itself. They told us in no uncertain terms that affirmative action was not--was not--preferences or quota for unqualified applicants...
...face of the Hopwood evidence (or King's article), intellectuals no longer defend affirmative action and persecute the likes of Graglia by contending that affirmative action is merely a "plus factor." Instead, they claim that affirmative action is necessary to achieve diversity. That argument, they think, arrests any opposition. Who, after all, will deny the value of diversity...
Maybe, just maybe, Harvard handed Stanford its first loss at Maples Pavilion in 60 games because all of the Crimson's players showed the poise necessary to make 5,000-plus fans a non-factor. All you had to see was the way Harvard's bench would leap to its feet and cheer with fists pumping every time a teammate hit a crucial bucket to understand the type of desire and character the Crimson displayed...
...homosexuality is not the only factor, the Justice said. Same-sex bias might spring from "general hostility" to one's own gender. And motivations aside, it's enough to show that the accused "treated members of both sexes in a mixed-sex workplace" differently. Says UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh: "If you can show that they would never do this sort of thing to a woman, that's enough...