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 October 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Proposition 2 and in April 2014 ruled in a 6-2 decision that voters may prohibit affirmative action in public universitites, thus overturning the lower court's decision and upholding Proposition 2.