Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Valdez after it veered outside normal shipping lanes. Following the last radio transmission by Hazelwood, the Coast Guard did not communicate with the Valdez until after the grounding, nearly an hour later. Nor did it track the tanker by radar. The Coast Guard has cited possible weather conditions, poor equipment and the change-of-shift preoccupations of a watchman to explain why the ship was not picked up on radar. More important, although seamen insist they rely heavily on Coast Guard monitoring in the entire sound, Coast Guard officials maintain they are not technically required to track ships...
...simple answer is that the notion of preferential treatment for Blacks is an illusion. Affirmative action is a poor substitute for true equality of opportunity; without it, quotas, set asides and welface create nothing but false conceptions of preferential treatment, reverse discrimination and resentment among those taxed to support such programs...
...these programs are justified because there are whites alive today who have benefited from past Black enslavement is equally problematic since affirmative action programs do not distinguish between the rich white from the Deep South and the poor white from Alaska...
...reverse side, affirmative action does not differentiate among Blacks whose life prospects have not been affected by slavery. Sons and daughters of wealthy Blacks benefit just as well as poor inner-city youths. The proper role of affirmative action is to seek out qualified minorities actively and promote them when they are indeed best suited for the positions in question...
...could deal with subsidiary issues, such as clinic standards and parental-notification requirements, on their own merits, whereas they have until now usually been cynical attempts to sneak around Roe's absolute constitutional ban. On the one side issue pro-choicers have generally lost -- government funding of abortions for poor women -- they might even find the opposition more accommodating once the general issue is open for debate and compromise. Right-to-life absolutists will find themselves isolated. Appeals to fairness, not to mention more cynical arguments regarding the cost to society of poor women having unwanted babies, will be more...