Word: treating
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...definition racist to treat individuals differently on the basis of their race, yet this is precisely what affirmative action quotas require. Under these quotas individuals are hired for jobs or admitted to schools with their racial, sexual or ethnic backgrounds as a key reason for selection. As a result, other people lose school or job opportunities because they are from the wrong race, sex or minority group. Such quota programs are inherently racist and unjust...
...picture in your "Look, No Straps" story [May 3]. I am particularly upset about the fact that in your story a reference is made to a Calvin Klein Lycra maillot as his "coolest hot-seller." Certainly looks as though my suit is his bestseller-is that a way to treat a trend...
Brando and Tarita are still good friends. Says Marlon, "I remember being furious with her because she fed so much candy and gum-so bad for the teeth-to the baby. She said to me, 'What can I do? He wants it.' Tahitians treat children as people who have legitimate wants and needs. None of this I-know-better-because-I'm-your-parent syndrome. I respect it. But I've learned not to try to go native mentally ... not to try to assume their mind frame. My first seven years as a child growing...
...alternative press tends to treat issues that the mass media largely ignores...
...opera, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, Minneapolis-based Composer Dominick Argento, 48, has chosen to treat not the author's creations but his life. Introduced brilliantly last week by the innovative Minnesota Opera Company in St. Paul, the opera takes Poe's death as its starting point...