a condition (or state) of disrepair / the current status of the arms negotiations. Hypernyms (status is a kind of...): state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of status): disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places) tautness; tenseness; tension; tensity (the physical condition of being stretched or strained) amyotonia; atonia; atonicity; atony (lack of normal muscular tension or tonus)
The issue of reverse discrimination first reached the nation's highest court in the 1970s, when a student with good grades named Allan Bakke accused a University of California medical school of twice denying him admission because he was white. Strict racial quotas were unconstitutional, the court said â affirmative action was not.
In 1972, Equal Employment Opportunity Act was passed, laying the groundwork for affirmative action. In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Bakke v. Univ. of California that the university could not use fixed quotas in making admissions decisions, in the first of what would be many challenges to affirmative action.