In two periods as home secretary he pursued the cause of "equal opportunity accompanied by cultural diversity in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance" that he saw as essential to civilised living and social cohesion.
The language of social exclusion may have come from Europe, but overcoming its root cause, inequality of opportunities, would have been as familiar to Clement Attlee as it is to Tony Blair.
Despite its importance, no attempt was made to resolve this question in Crime as Opportunity, but twenty-two years later Felson and I felt able to claim that opportunity is a cause of crime (see Opportunity Makes the Thief, Felson and Clarke, 1998).
Their cause: a lack of opportunity for honest work and decent pay in the French capital.
This is not caused by lack of opportunity alone, it's also caused by lack of power to change the systems, policies, and practices that create and continually recreate poverty.
And if you claim you're a bottoms-up stock-picker, but if you start accumulating names that these are the causes of the opportunity and you're not paying attention, you're going to turn that portfolio into a macro portfolio or a portfolio that is so dependent on one or two sectors playing out favorably for you that you're really no longer a bottoms-up stock-picker.
They are usually less attended to and stimulated by the family circle which causes the lack of opportunity to learn and develop language skills.
Would passage of such an ordinance represent an advance or a setback for the cause of formal equality of opportunity or careers open to talents?
He thinks the Enron gang should be given a chance at redemption a la Michael Milken, the Drexel junk bond king who has made a cause of improving educational opportunities for children since emerging from prison.
While critical of the strike, the public did not necessarily support the cause of equal employment opportunities for black workers.
