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| The ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was the court's disorderly attempt in 1978 to bring______ some order |
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| Powel proposed that university administrators could consider an applicant's race- sometimes, anyway- as long as they didn't establish any_______ |
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| But it's also true that ______ among African-Americans has increased |
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| America has_____, really, and one of them is falling further and further behind. |
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| Critics like to claim that other forces- poverty, for example, or discrimination- discourage_______ |
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| But marriage rates among African-Americans were significantly higher when _________ was everywhere and poverty rampant. |
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| For its part, the Republican Party, last seen fighting tooth and claw against efforts to extend the_________, continues |
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| continues to oppose what activists like to call _________. |
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| University affirmative action programs, whatever their benefits, are no remedy for the problems of the______. |
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| The overall membership rate declined because the increases in organized labor's ranks didn't keep pace with overall growth in _______. |
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| The bureau announced these numbers as the nation's labor unions have been coming under heavy _________. |
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| have pushed to curb the power of public employees to ________. |
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| Moreover, ______ is poised to become the 1st state in more than a decade. |
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| unions from agreeing to contracts that require workers to pay fees for ______. |
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| public sector workers in unions was______ |
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| The bureau found that ______ state had the highest unionization rate |
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| Politics, some believe, is the organization of_____. |
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| The people who try to divide society on the basis of ethnicity we call _____. |
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| The people who try to divide it on the basis of religion we call ________. |
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| The people who try to divide it on the basic of social class we call either _______. |
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| makes everything so simple |
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| It's easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it_______. |
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| popular with the ruling class |
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| Third, populism is_______. |
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| The history of populism, going back to William Jennings Bryan, is generally a history of _______. |
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| Voters are capable of holding two ideas in their heads at one time: First, the ________ |
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| simply bashing the rich and the powerful will still not solve the country's problems |
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| In fact, this county was built by_______ |
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| The populists have an _______ mentality. |
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| which is now the single biggest factor in holding back________ |
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| They will have traded _________, which always wins |
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| collective bargaining rights |
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| Americans say they oppose efforts to weaken the_____ of public employee unions |
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| Republican governors in________ to weaken their bargaining powers |
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| tax increases over benefit cuts |
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| those polled preferred ________ for state workers by nearly two to one. |
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| The one group that favors weakening those rights, by a slim majority, was_______. |
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| honestly believe themselves to be egalitarian unconsciously associate __________. |
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| for the evidence is overwhelming that most Americans have _________ both against blacks and against women in executive roles. |
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| people outside our own group |
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| And evolutionary psychologists believe we're hard-wired to be suspicious of ___________ |
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| Yet racism may also be easier to override than _________. |
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| The challenge for women competing in politics or business is less ________ than |
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| than unconscious__________ : Americans don't hate women |
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| Those viewed as tough and strong are also typically perceived as cold and _________. |
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| Many experiments have found that women have trouble being perceived as both nice and ________. |
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