Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Anytime rules are established that eliminatethe ascension of Asian-Americans, Hispanics orwomen, then those rules must be re-evaluated,"said Jackson after an address at the Institute ofPolitics. "I cannot accept that a set of rulesthat eliminates minorities is a sound...
...great for those individuals but it still fails to address the crux of the problem which is the discriminatory policies themselves," said Bonauto. "It's one crack in the wall, but it's quite a thick wall...
...member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Anderson says he is convinced that Harvard's toleration of gays is evidence of a "moral malaise" on campus, a situation he plans to address next fall by having the HRC issue anti-gay pins with blue squares to protest against the pink triangle worn by supporters of gay rights...
Among the solutions offered by the A.M.A.: force more employers to provide health insurance, and expand Medicaid coverage for the poor. But the A.C.P. | labels such changes "tinkering," not reform -- helpful in the short run but inadequate to address the fundamental flaws in the system. In the 21-page position paper it issued last week, the group cites several such flaws, including wasteful administrative overhead that has burgeoned to 22% of medical expenses, and enormous malpractice awards that force doctors to buy expensive insurance and pass the cost on to patients. But the biggest problems, according to the A.C.P...
...enough to cover this year's Government operations: defense, social welfare, exhibits of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, everything. It's only the interest -- and interest on interest -- on past excesses that we can't cover. Most of those excesses occurred in the decade since Ronald Reagan, in his first Inaugural Address, warned of "tremendous social, cultural, political and economic upheavals" from the national debt, then under $800 billion...