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 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court declared the anti-miscegenation laws that were still in place among 16 states to be unconstitutional. U.S. couples -- whether of the same or different races -- became eligible to marry in any state, as long as they consisted of one woman and one man. The Court reached this conclusion even though the vast majority (72%) of American adults were still opposed to legalizing interracial marriage at the time.