Word: socio
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Harvard and at least 25 other institutions prepared opinions for the court because educators, college administrators and lawyers believe that the outcome of this case could have a significant impact on non-white minority, sexual, ethnic and socio-economic group admissions procedures and affirmative action programs for hiring...
William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, and Socio-Technical Systems of Boston wrote the $188,000 report...
...court could be as important to minority access to higher education as the Brown v. Board of Education desegration ruling of 1954 was for public school education. And many observers say that the ruling could affect not only non-white minority admissions procedures, but those for sexual, ethnic and socio-economic groups as well. Affirmative action plans involving hiring practices could also be altered by the Court ruling...
...little to say thematically. Only one of the four themes (Peter Townshend's, in fact) is explicitly moral, and the weakest, lyrically and musically, ending the opera with a piece of simplistic fluff called "Love, Reign O'er Me." In the main though, aside from Quadrophenia's socio-historical-contextual significance (which is nothing to dismiss), whatever statement it makes is one of "stance...
Both of these eastern nations embarked on a campaign for industrialization, the natural prerequisite to modernization. But history has shown that the nation that strives to advance scientifically and technologically inevitably compromises its non-western identity--the socio-cultural conditions that have shaped its traditions and national character...