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  • 81affirmative action — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. a policy which attempts to prevent discrimination of minorities, as in employment, through hiring quotas or other means. Affirmative action has opened the employment door for many African Americans …

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  • 82affirmative action — [n] equal rights policy anti discrimination, equal opportunity, fair hiring, fair treatment, quota system, reverse discrimination; concepts 388,645,667 …

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  • 83affirmative action —    In employment or admission to programs: a business, institution or governmental agency giving preference in hiring or advancement to ethnic minorities to make up for past discrimination. Affirmative action has been at the center of several… …

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  • 84affirmative action — noun A policy or program providing advantages for people of a minority group who are seen to have traditionally been discriminated against, with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society through preferential access to education, employment,… …

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  • 85back-action condenser — a condenser with a U shaped shank so that the force applied is toward the operator. Called also reverse c …

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  • 86English prefixes — are affixes (i.e., bound morphemes that provide lexical meaning) that are added before either simple roots or complex bases (or operands) consisting of (a) a root and other affixes, (b) multiple roots, or (c) multiple roots and other affixes.… …

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  • 87Coercive Diplomacy — or forceful persuasion is the attempt to get a target, a state, a group (or groups) within a state, or a nonstate actor to change its objectionable behavior through either the threat to use force or the actual use of limited force. [1] This term… …

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  • 88Methamphetamine — Meth and Tik redirect here. For other uses, see Meth (disambiguation) and Tik (disambiguation). This article is about the psychostimulant drug, methamphetamine, in both racemic and dextrorotatory forms. For the CNS inactive OTC nasal decongestant …

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  • 89reaction mechanism — Introduction       in chemical reactions (chemical reaction), the detailed processes by which chemical substances are transformed into other substances. The reactions themselves may involve the interactions of atoms (atom), molecules (molecule),… …

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  • 90Power shuttle — A power shuttle is an additional unit used in transmissions. It is generally used in agricultural tractors. While the vehicle is moving forwards, the driver can pull a lever that makes it stop and go backwards at the same speed.Power Shuttle also …

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