Because Asian Americans are a "model minority" and tend to outperform other racial groups academically, they are deemed unworthy of affirmative action.
For purposes of this subsection, a subscriber's failure to refuse a cable operator's proposal to provide such service or equipment shall not be deemed to be an affirmative request for such service or equipment.
(For example, for the question "Are you having chest pain?" an indication in the positive or affirmative would be deemed appropriate; a response that did not speak directly to the question, i.e., "I'm short of breath" or "It's okay" would not be regarded as appropriate).
In the late 1960s, Richard M. Nixon even supported a version of affirmative action because he deemed it useful to break unions by accusing them of racial exclusion.
Despite serving as a Democrat, Rizzo cultivated his base of support by calling for "law and order" and opposing programs like public housing, school busing, affirmative action, and other policies his supporters deemed unearned advantages for nonwhites.
Dean had been stalwart in defense of affirmative action and harshly critical of what he deemed the Bush Administration's tactics of racial divisiveness.
The culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, is relieved that the bill will just scramble on to the statute book, and her office pointed out that the number of casinos can be subsequently increased up to eight by affirmative resolution in parliament if the experiment is deemed to have worked.
Artificial quotas to exclude the most qualified applicants; preferential treatment based on an accident of birth; set-asides for a group deemed unable to compete on a level playing field -- is this affirmative action at the University of California at Berkeley?
In the beginning of August, the Jeff Sessions-led Depannouncedf Justite announced it was going to use its resources to investigate, and subsequently sue Universities it deemed were discriminating against white and Asian applicants under the umbrella of affirmative action.
To the editor: Millions of Californians rejected affirmative action when they passed Proposition 209 in 1996, which after enactment was deemed constitutional by the state Supreme Court.
He deemed this "offensive".
