Instead, he read a statement that said: "New York Life has a long record of commitment to equal opportunity.
These included votes reaffirming the importance of a commitment to equal opportunity by the Education Department and urging it to enforce Title IX uniformly and aggressively.
Mr. Gonzales's remarks appeared intended to address that concern, repeatedly emphasizing his and the president's commitment to equal opportunity.
One of their critics was Jesse Jackson, who says in the documentary that he regarded the group's commitment to equal opportunity but not equal outcomes as a "back-handed slap at affirmative action".
(The companies' support is reflective of more than a high-minded commitment to equal opportunity: the World Health Organization estimates that nearly four per cent of the planet's population is visually impaired, a substantial base of potential customers).
The Reaganites and their allies said they were simply trying to move away from racial preferences and quotas while maintaining a commitment to equal opportunity -- "to moderate the excesses, particularly in the remedial measures, that had been pursued by the prior administration," as Charles J. Cooper, a top aide in the Justice Department at the time, put it last week.
"Aid Changes Raise Issue of Diversity at Colleges" (news article, Dec. 1) missed one key point: Elite selective schools receive significant government support (from grants to special tax treatment) because of our country's commitment to equal opportunity and social mobility, and the role that education plays in supporting these goals.
Some people think that pressure on these chief executives, who belong to Augusta National and have professed a commitment to equal opportunity in their jobs, will have more influence in changing Augusta National than will any words spoken by Mr. Woods or other golfers.
The American commitment to equal opportunity is not being fulfilled," he says, as passion fills one of the world's most understated billionaires.
Offended Muslims should take some solace in Russia's commitment to equal opportunity discrimination.
