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Word: specializations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it was a mistake to begin with...to set up a special list" of groups qualified for affirmative action, Glazer said. "It was certainly a mistake to extend it beyond Blacks...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Defining `Minority' | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

GLAZER, explaining his preferred "formal definition of `minority,'" said: "When you're a minority, you deserve special treatment...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Defining `Minority' | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...refers to actions of "policy" taken by the government: the quotas required by affirmative action. But its phrasing also casts the problems facing minorities in a narrow, even paternalistic manner. It says that U.S. society will acknowledge a minority's problems only if they require policy amounting to obvious "special treatment." Just who delivers the treatment remains tantalizingly vague...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Defining `Minority' | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...feel you have no special qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with MOTHER Teresa: A Pencil In the Hand Of God | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...Sarah M. Buel, a third-year law student, upon hearing that the school's special public service advisory committee would not make any recommendations at least until the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

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