Affirmative Action policies are used in the United States to increase opportunities for minorities by favoring them in hiring, promotion, contracting and school admissions. Minorities are defined by race, ethnicity, or gender. ... Until the 1960s, barriers prevented blacks and other minorities from entering many jobs and educational institutions. ... The compliance reports were only supposed to demonstrate a firm's efforts to hire more minorities, and effort is very difficult to evaluate. ... It covered only private employers, but in 1972 it was amended to include labor unions, employ...

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Over the past 40 years Affirmative Action has become a widely debated topic and has been expanded to include various groups. ... Originally designed to give ethnic minorities a better opportunity in a white dominated world the issue has become a beacon for any group discriminated against on the basis of gender, age or religious affiliation. ... Bush has been trying to keep the GOP's conservative base happy while at the same time wooing minorities. ...

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Honduras Have you ever wanted to travel to a beautiful country far from where your at now? To visit a land full of many different customs and where culture is put into a whole new perspective. Well if this is what you have dreamed of take your Spanish class and fly or drive down to a friendly n...

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, said, "We all may not be able to support it, or none of us may be able to support it but we'll wait and see" (Jackson). ... In addition to raising the national debt ceiling, the deal also includes other reforms. ...

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