Word: factors
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...most recent federal decision on the issue, Hopwood struck down the "use of race as a factor in law school admissions." The Supreme the case. The law stands in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi...
...case was Bakke vs. California, and the Supreme Court ruled that while strict quotas were illegal universities could use race or ethnicity as "plus factors" in admissions, that is, if two equal candidates are competing for one slot, race can be the deciding factor...
What separates this matchmaker from its human competitors is the confidentiality factor...
...most of the U.S., the 1978 Bakke decision--forbidding racial quotas but allowing schools to use race as a factor in admissions--remains the law of the land. Most schools see real value in maintaining a racially diverse student body. But Texas and California, for different reasons, find themselves on the leading edge of a movement to roll back even such nonquota efforts at affirmative action. The entire Texas university system was forced to change its policies when the Supreme Court let stand an appeals court's 1996 ruling in favor of four white students who sued U.T. law school...
...important factor that contributed to the degradation of the value of volunteering was the forced involvement of every individual in the communist party. Starting from the age of four, children automatically became part of the Communist political structures under the organization "Falcons of the Fatherland." I was a Falcon and at the time, I took pride in it. At the age of 10 I became a Pioneer and, I would have become a member of the Communist Party if the Revolution had not come...