Affirmative action in the United States — is intended to promote access to education, employment, or housing among certain designated groups (typically, minorities and women). The stated motivation for affirmative action policies is to redress the effects of past discrimination and to… … Wikipedia
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Association of Flight Attendants — Infobox Union name= AFA CWA country= United States affiliation= AFL CIO, CWA,ITF members= 55,000 full name= Association of Flight Attendants native name= founded= August 22, 1945 current= head= dissolved date= dissolved state= merged into= office … Wikipedia
Minister of Public Works v Kyalami Ridge Environmental Association — Minister of Public Works and Others v Kyalami Ridge Environmental Association and Others,[1] an important case in South African law, was decided by the Constitutional Court on May 29, 2001. Contents 1 Facts 2 High Court 3 Constitutiona … Wikipedia
допустимое действие — Действие, удовлетворяющее установленным правилам или ограничениям и изменяющее непротиворечивую совокупность предложений в информационной базе или концептуальной схеме на другую непротиворечивую совокупность предложений и/или предоставляющее… … Справочник технического переводчика
Deontological ethics — Deontic redirects here. For the linguistic term, see Linguistic modality. Deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek deon, obligation, duty ; and logia) is an approach to ethics that judges the morality of an action based on the action s… … Wikipedia
radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… … Universalium
Probabilism — • The moral system which holds that, when there is question solely of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of an action, it is permissible to follow a solidly probable opinion in favour of liberty even though the opposing view is more probable.… … Catholic encyclopedia
Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement — ▪ 2006 Introduction Trials of former heads of state, U.S. Supreme Court rulings on eminent domain and the death penalty, and high profile cases against former executives of large corporations were leading legal and criminal issues in 2005.… … Universalium
Government contract — Contracting with the U.S. Government is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting andcan be very profitable, but is sufficiently different from commercial contracting to require special care.Persons entering into commercial… … Wikipedia
Government procurement in the United States — is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting, but is subject to special laws and regulation as described below. Persons entering into commercial contracts are pretty much free to do anything that they can agree on. Each… … Wikipedia