Word: ideas
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...direct descendent of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The wording of the proposition is adapted from the 1964 Civil Rights Act. None of the advocates of the proposition who appears regularly before the public is a white male. Its advertising slogan is "Bring us together." The idea the pro-proposition forces are selling is that affirmative action has introduced obsessive color consciousness into what otherwise would be a color-blind society, and thus hurts black people as much as white...
When President Lyndon Johnson created affirmative action, he surely wasn't thinking, "Now I believe I'll profoundly subvert the spirit of the Civil Rights Act, the crowning achievement of my life, which became law only a year ago." Instead, the idea was that custom, ethnocentrism, poverty, bad schools, old-boy networking and a host of other factors would conspire against the new civil rights of African Americans and any real socioeconomic advancement. So L.B.J. compelled government and its contractors to look a little harder for blacks to fill job openings. Thousands of private organizations instituted affirmative-action plans...
...believe Lee Harvey Oswald in fact acted alone, why do you think so many Americans reject that idea...
...wounds, Dole is a man who trusts in the concrete, the empirical, a man who distrusts philosophizing and grand theory. Economics is not an imaginary curve scrawled on a napkin, but nickels and dimes plunked in a glass jar. Dole's 15% tax cut is his one big idea (the symbol of less government and more individuality), but he is so uncomfortable with it that he has trouble keeping it at the forefront of his campaign, not to mention persuading voters that he actually believes...
...course, these are the problems of the more fortunate. Poorer women will see little in The First Wives Club that they can relate to. "This idea of leaving for a new trinket is more for people who are used to living well," observes Betty Nordwind, executive director of the Harriet Duhai Family Law Center, a nonprofit legal-aid service in Los Angeles. Among her divorce clients, if the husband has a younger girlfriend, that is likely to be "reason No. 20" for the split, with violence, money troubles and addiction the more pressing concerns...