Over the last few decades community colleges and other two-year colleges have been established to meet the needs of the many students from more affluent backgrounds seeking a college education.
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The homeless include many people of color who face discrimination, many people who have been or are married, and many children.
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Large profit-seeking medical-technology corporations have had little influence in the movement toward large centralized medical institutions.
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Whittle Communications began offering schools Channel One a free televised news program that includes commercials for healthy food and other products.
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More than 30 percent of those below the federal poverty line have no insurance, and many others are underinsured.
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Which of the following legal strategies tends to ensure fairness and evenhandedness in sentencing of defendants accused of killing white victims?
a. Prosecutorial discretion in the selective prosecution of capital cases.
b. Prosecutorial misuse of peremptory challenges that systematically exclude people of color from juries involving capital defendants from communities of color.
c. Judicial override by white trial judges in capital cases with defendants of color.
d. Effective assistance by highly trained defense counsel.
Society's definition of deviance is usually
a. specific.
b. invariable.
c. arbitrary and ambiguous.
d. based on psychological evaluations.
Those persons arrested for conventional street crimes, including major crimes of violence and major property crimes
a. represent a cross-section of the adult population in the United States.
b. are disproportionately nonwhites from all age groups.
c. are disproportionately male, young, poor, and minority.
d. are mostly young white males on drugs.
The development of junior (2 year) colleges over the past few decades
a. has been viewed in part as a safety valve for society by many policy makers.
b. was primarily an attempt to support the development of a common culture among all students.
c. was necessary because most working-class youth could not successfully compete with upper-class youth in better schools.
d. facilitated the development of strong organizations for change among students.
The rise of the new scientific medicine in the United States in the early part of this century
a. grew out of medical research centered in Europe before World War I.
b. had strong opposition from corporate capitalism.
c. took care to include health care groups whose orientation to disease differed from the new scientific medical approach.
d. grew out of a family- and community-centered desire to generate wellness.
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