Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, Woo points out, pursuing public office was difficult because of overt discrimination against Asian-Americans. Recent studies also suggest that some Asian-American immigrants are more concerned with the politics of their homelands than the politics of the cities in which they live. Some of these recent immigrants also face language barriers which make it difficult for them even to cast ballost...
Women have combated overt discrimination in education effectively in recent decades, but still have further to go towards eliminating more subtle forms, an advocate for federal anti-discrimination laws said last night in Agassiz Theatre...
Military conflict with the evolving social values of civilian society is nothing new. The armed services are still recoiling from the mere presence, let alone the theoretical equality, of women. While some units have integrated the genders effectively, in many others harassment remains commonplace, from sexual taunts to overt refusal to promote women into positions of authority over men. For every woman who is happy with colleagues, there is another with horror stories. All the services continue to preclude women from holding combat posts, despite Congress's vote in 1991 to drop regulations that prohibit women in the Air Force...
...underlying significance of Malcolm X evolves from the differing environment that he and Dr. King were addressing. Nonviolent tactics worked in a region that was plagued with de jure segregation and overt discrimination...
...Undergraduate Council, in discussions that followed the release of the Task Force report, defined rape instead as sex occurring despite the expressed unwillingness of the victim. The Council's recommendation held that a victim must express overt dissent, either verbally or physically, for the act to be considered rape...