Word: although
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Touching on issues that appeared in the vice-presidential debate, the candidates agreed on several issues of social discrimination. Although both expressed opposition to racial profiling, Gore was alone in expressing support for a law that would end the practice, as well as for the hate crimes law currently pending in Congress. Bush favored an approach that would give greater choice to the states on racial profiling and argued that new hate crimes laws could be rendered unnecessary by more vigorous enforcement of existing...
...also asked Bush to endorse the Employer Non-Discrimination Act, a bill pending in Congress that would ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Bush's response did not mention this bill or the subject of civil unions. Bush did stress that gays should not be extended "special rights," although he did not clarify what the term meant despite Lehrer's prodding...
Bush did not view reducing carbon emissions as a priority; he did endorse clean coal technologies, although these do not have much effect on carbon dioxide. Bush spoke mainly of a different approach to enforcing environmental regulations and establishing national monuments, one that would take greater account of local and industry concerns...
...Although the public schools should respond with a more intensive course on sex education, this does not replace the responsibility of parents to discuss these topics with their children. Sex education should start in the home and be supplemented in school. It's obviously an uncomfortable topic and one that parents may be eager to avoid, but it is vital that our children learn about it from multiple sources...
Alexander A. Boni-Saenz '01, founder and former president of the campus gay social and support group Beyond Our Normal Differences (BOND), said yesterday that he liked the tone of this year's festivities, although he wished there was more publicity...