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Equal Opportunity
Equal Opportunity FORMAL EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY LIMITATIONS OF FORMAL EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY JUSTICE AND EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY BIBLIOGRAPHY The term equal opportunity refers to the absence of discrimination based on involuntary personal attributes,... Read more |
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cube
cube in geometry, regular solid bounded by six equal squares. All adjacent faces of a cube are perpendicular to each other; any one face of a cube may be its base. The dimensions of a cube are the lengths of the three edges which meet at any vertex. The volume of a cube is equal to the product of... Read more |
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. agency created in 1964 to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and to promote programs to make equal employment opportunity a reality. It has since become responsible for ending discrimination... Read more |
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axiom
axiom in mathematics and logic, general statement accepted without proof as the basis for logically deducing other statements (theorems). Examples of axioms used widely in mathematics are those related to equality (e.g., "Two things equal to the same thing are equal to each other" ; "If... Read more |
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Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism BIBLIOGRAPHY Egalitarianism is a political ideology centered on the belief in human equality. As a basic concept, equality by itself refers only to a relation, such as “less than Read more |
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mass
mass in physics, the quantity of matter in a body regardless of its volume or of any forces acting on it. The term should not be confused with weight , which is the measure of the force of gravity (see gravitation ) acting on a body. Under ordinary conditions the mass of a body can be considered... Read more |
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temperament
temperament in music, the altering of certain intervals from their acoustically correct values to provide a system of tuning whereby music can move from key to key without unacceptably impure sonorities. It is particularly necessary for keyboard instruments, the pitches of which cannot be varied in... Read more |
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celestial horizon
celestial horizon one axis of the altazimuth coordinate system . It is the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the observer's zenith and nadir; it divides the celestial sphere into two equal hemispheres. The observer may be unable to see all the stars that lie above his celestial... Read more |
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Milan awakens to find one dream dashed SOCCER
...Madrigal, not only richly deserved...who was by some distance the...created the only goal of the...free kicks.Some 10 minutes after...significant ban. It may be trial by...eclipsed the beauty of a fresh Spanish...claimed the ... |
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New CBS season
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