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...three were black, three Hispanic, and two Asian. Two of the "virulent conservatives" who pushed most strongly for the ban were Ward Connerly, an African-American, who argued that quotas were used as an excuse to avoid improving the quality of education in inner-city schools, and Tirso del Junco, M.D., a Hispanic...
...November 1994, when the regents were debating affirmative action policy at UCSF, Regent del Junco stated emphatically that in his thirty-five years of practice in East Los Angeles he had treated all emergency room patients equally, regardless of their race. He believed that the same standard fairness should apply to college applicants. Hear, hear...
...three were black, three Hispanic, and two Asian. Two of the "virulent conservatives" who pushed most strongly for the ban were Ward Connerly, an African-American, who argued that quotas were used as an excuse to avoid improving the quality of education in inner-city schools, and Tirso del Junco, M.D., a Hispanic...
...Environmentalists have been joined in the battle to prevent sale by some conservative Republicans, who feel that the auction would be contrary to President Reagan's pledges to share federal power with the states because Watt did not consult officials in Sacramento. California Republican Chairman Dr. Tirso del Junco wrote Watt that pushing the "extremely sensitive" sales would hurt the party in the state, which plans to file suit to block the auction, if it is scheduled...
...galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole." A dozen other busted species include the European teal (to green-winged teal), Audubon's warbler and the myrtle warbler (to yellow-rumped warbler), the red-shafted, yellow-shafted and gilded flicker (to common flicker), the slate-colored junco (to dark-eyed junco) and the black-eared bushtit (to common bushtit...