Word: factor
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Only upon her arrival on campus had Payanzo begun to consider the consequences of her pregnancy. Having ended on an uncertain note with Yazzie, he did not factor into her plans...
Interpreted literally, Title VII prevents firms from considering race as a factor in hiring. Created to protect minorities from discrimination, this provision of the Civil Rights Act has therefore not been invoked against affirmative action programs that favor minorities. Affirmative action supporters feared that with political tides in the United States shifting to the right, the Taxman case would give the court the opportunity to codify this shift--eradicating the widespread use of affirmative action policies...
...affirmative action supporter accepts race as a factor in an application process. Minorities should then be given an edge in the admissions processes of schools and the personnel decisions of firms. To illustrate the sincerity of their commitment, affirmative action activists generally admit that minority candidates (provided they have met certain standards) will be accepted in lieu of whites with what have traditionally been considered better credentials. Race, any defender of affirmative action would agree, can compensate for the relative shortcomings that are both the vestiges of past discrimination and the result of current inequality...
...calculate individual daily caloric needs, divide body weight by 2.2 to convert pounds to kilograms, multiply by a gender factor (1 for males, .9 for females) and multiply...
...Anything that has a high protein factor: yogurt, tuna, cheese, hot food, is thrown out after every meal," he says. "In the upper class houses you'll see that they have really little [containers]. That is because we don't want to put too much out there because we dispose of everything...