But implicit in his very candidacy is the chance for Republicans to make history by nominating their first-ever minority standard-bearer, who, as a youthful Latino, reflects the demographic wave inexorably remaking the country, state by state.
If the city were to continue under the 50% Caucasian and 50% minority standard, there would never be parity with the general work force and the consent decree would be "waiting to greet those Angeleno descendants born in the next millennium," wrote Deputy City Atty.
We take measurements of pretty much everything, from black student school test scores to minority living standards.
Bustos and her allies have been seeking to tamp down concerns about the policy by pairing it with a new set of minority hiring standards and pointing out that it is not technically a "blacklist" — vendors are still free to work for primary challengers but would forgo an official DCCC endorsement.
The full economic consequences will therefore depend on the answer to another question worthy of research: If there is indeed a bias against minorities in standard measures of educational and professional potential, does that bias disappear when an individual has had other advantages in life?
This is a large minority by any standards.
We designed and conducted an experiment to see how people play the standard minority game.
At the Scottish parliament at Holyrood, coalition or minority bargaining is standard.
Approximately 15% of those who underwent seroconversion in the acute phase in industrialized settings harbor drug-resistant HIV-1 minority variants, while standard resistance testing did not detect drug-resistant viruses in those patients (3 ).
The law's authors, two MPs from the ruling Party of Regions, Vadym Kolesnichenko and Serhiy Kivalov, presented it in terms of European standards on minority rights (nominally, it includes 18 other minority languages, not just Russian).
