On Oct. 10, the court will hear a major case about affirmative action in higher education, Fisher v. University of Texas, and Justice Thomas will almost certainly vote against allowing the university to take account of race in admissions decisions.
How about affirmative action?
The questions are not present, which renders some of the brief, affirmative answers almost meaningless.
WHEN the Supreme Court last ruled on affirmative action, almost a decade ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy issued a 13-page dissent that may now provide the best guide to the future of affirmative action.
In most practical situations, an affirmative answer to the question is almost obvious.
Nevertheless, in most practical situations an affirmative answer to this question is almost obvious.
The Scottish poet writes rhyming poems in regular forms, siphoning from Robert Frost an extreme nihilism that cancels almost any imaginable positive or affirmative claim.
When this fourth question is answered strongly in the affirmative, you will almost certainly need outside help.
However, the difference was of borderline significance (P = 0.07, with Bonferroni's correction P = 0.24) only for the second question where the frequency of affirmative judgments was almost four times greater in non-hygiene intervention studies (Table 2).
Almost everyone will answer in the affirmative and yet practically everyone's definition will be different.
In the United States, the discussion of affirmative action has revolved almost exclusively around race; conversely, the national conversation about racial equality has increasingly (and rather reductively) focused on affirmative action.
