Yet critics say the affirmative-action program promotes inter-caste resentment as India's 1.2 billion people compete for too few jobs.
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You know and I know that this affirmative action program is a crock.
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As far as what political agenda he means, Lobach says he isn't sure, but says maybe an aggressive affirmative action program.
Multiple human performance and corrective action program problems exist at Palo Verde.
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But many undocumented workers avoid joining unions "because they are under constant threat of deportation, " said Ana Avendano, head of the AFL-CIO's immigration and community-action program.
On Tuesday, the President will speak at the annual UAW -- United Auto Workers -- Community Action Program Conference, a gathering of 1, 700 UAW leaders from across the country.
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There, the justices are weighing whether the University of Texas' affirmative-action program, which the school says can give an edge to some minority applicants, violates the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause.
Ana Avendano, head of the AFL-CIO's immigration and community action program, said the Harrisburg situation will prompt the federation to address the J-1 visa in negotiations for an immigration overhaul.
Mr. Najib had launched a series of economic and social overhauls before the election, rolling back parts of a decades-old affirmative-action program designed to raise incomes among the generally poorer ethnic-Malay majority.
He has scrapped a decades-old law enabling security forces to detain critics without trial, and began chipping away at the sprawling affirmative-action program while accelerating state-asset sales to reduce government's hold over business.
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He has scrapped a decades-old law enabling security forces to detain critics without trial, and began chipping away at the sprawling affirmative-action program while accelerating state-asset sales to loosen the government's hold over business.
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At a news conference Sunday, Bremer also discussed the formation of a national "community action program, " which he said would help get local economies moving by hiring workers to clean up neighborhoods and build schools.
Fueling their latent sense of discontent is the National Development Policy (previously known as the New Economic Policy), a long-established affirmative-action program that gives preferential treatment to indigenous Malays over other races in business, education and other fields.
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By putting market research into action, the program helps governments craft empowering policies and guides mobile phone companies in the creation of customized products for women.
If we want a positive program of action, we should start getting rid of programs that harm the poor.
We were there to see the Cooperative Threat Reduction program in action.
There's also a precedent for Israeli military action against a nuclear program.
For instance, Thomas opposes affirmative action, the very program that his critics insist was solely responsible for his admission into Yale Law School.
So the OIC's ten year program of action seeks to subordinate free speech including the First Amendment to Islamic notions of free speech.
At the other end of the philosophical spectrum, a re-release of Confronting Collapse by Michael Rupert, presents a 25-point program for action to address the imminent energy crisis.
North Korea has been a trailblazer in its utilization of a mix of diplomatic aggression and seeming accommodation to alternately intimidate and persuade its enemies to take no action against its nuclear program.
The IAEA's assault on the Congressional report is part and parcel of ElBaradei's insistence that the US take no concerted action against Iran's program.
Perhaps more disturbing than the IAEA report - written by Muhammad ElBaradei, who with the exception of the mullahs themselves is probably the man least interested in taking action against Iran's program - were the Israeli and US responses to it.
The only way that diplomacy will succeed in convincing the Iranians to turn away from their nuclear program is if they believe, without a doubt, that if they fail to take those steps diplomatically, the United States will take military action to stop their nuclear program.
The Republican-backed bill expanding Indiana's program is awaiting action in the state Senate, where there have been concerns about its cost and whether the Legislature should start making exceptions to the 2011 compromise that then-Gov. Mitch Daniels touted as giving public schools a chance to win over students and parents.
Earlier this week, Rafsanjani urged his nation to lower tensions with Iran's archenemy Israel, which is considering military action over Tehran's nuclear program.
While all these states publicly oppose Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons, they effectively block the international community from taking effective action against Iran's nuclear program.
On Iran, do you believe that the six-power talks represent a last chance for the country to diffuse concerns over its nuclear program and avert military action?
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