Word: rollback
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...passage of this initiative may herald new, more intense and perhaps more successful efforts to rollback affirmative action nationwide. However, the recent Texaco scandal demonstrates some of the reasons why these policies were enacted and why they are still necessary. Texaco was rocked last week by the release of secretly recorded tapes of top management mocking black employees and conspiring to destroy documents that could prove that the company's promotion practices were discriminatory. One Texaco executive sneered that "all the black jellybeans seem to be glued to the bottom...
California this fall is embroiled in the biggest, bitterest, most potentially significant ballot-initiative campaign since Proposition 13, the 1978 property-tax rollback that transformed American politics. The initiative is called Proposition 209, and it would abolish affirmative action in state contracting, education and employment. It has been running consistently ahead in the polls...
...People in my world want moderation, not rollback. Republicans want to turn back the moral clock to 50 years ago, banning books and all, and that don't sit right," she said...
...People in my world want moderation, not rollback. Republicans want to turn back the moral clock to 50 years ago, banning books and all, and that don't sit right," she said...
...disadvantaged and unwanted in American society are again under attack. The hardships caused by the rollback and removal of welfare programs will undoubtedly fall on the backs of women. Hailed by Republicans as a way to force families to care for their dependents, the cuts are really aimed at women caring for children. This pro-family ideology is a misogynistic, presidentially approved method of forcing economic dependency on women while reinforcing the economic independence of men. DAVID BINNS Woodstock, Canada...