Word: subject
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...initiative itself came out of nowhere, but given the subject matter--one that involves just about every hot-button issue of race, class, gender and opportunity in America--there's no wonder it has become such a big deal in America's most populous state. If the initiative passes, it would make it illegal for any state institution to take race or gender into account in distributing its benefits. This would wipe out a host of programs in California, from magnet schools to science tutoring for girls to road-paving set-asides, and would significantly decrease the minority presence...
...surprise this fall in California, in fact, is what isn't happening: Bob Dole and Bill Clinton aren't talking about the initiative. It is not as if they are not interested in the subject of affirmative action. Clinton is the only American President ever to have devoted a major public address to affirmative-action policy--his "mend it, don't end it" speech of July 1995. Dole is the author of federal legislation to abolish affirmative action, explicitly modeled on the California initiative. Polling shows that the initiative has the clear potential to affect voter behavior in other races...
...favorable mentions in the conservative press and, mostly, the Republican landslide in 1994 changed their luck. During the early months of 1995, their cause transfixed the country. The national press and academe, two subcultures where the level of interest in affirmative action is high, undertook the debate on the subject that had never occurred when affirmative action was quietly instituted by Executive Order back in 1965. Republican politicians--Dole, Newt Gingrich and California Governor Pete Wilson, who had just been re-elected on the strength of his support for the anti-illegal-alien Proposition 187 and was now launching...
Toyota remains un-American, at least as far as the auto industry is concerned, in one key aspect: it is a nonunion shop, a status that is also subject to intense discussion in local communities. Roger Myers, a county commissioner in Indiana who helped bring Toyota to Princeton, was a longtime executive of the United Mine Workers union and sees the new truck plant as a fertile ground for labor organizers. "I know the jobs have to be there before the union is there," Myers says, "but this is still a union community. I think there will be an attempt...
...choice, but anti-abortion," is how Stowe summarizes his stand on the subject...