| A | B |
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| affirmative action | A program of preferential hring of trhose in particular minority groups... |
| Arbitrager | One who buys securities or other commodities who knows or suspects that the price is aout to rise. |
| Autocrat | One who rules without restrictions on his power, an absolute ruer. |
| Bankruptcy | A condition in which an individual or company can not pay their bills in a timely manner. |
| Cause Celebre | French for a legal case about which much do was made (ex. O.J. Simpson case) |
| Conglomerate | A business organzation which produces diverse good, not similar to one another, as gasoline or bread, etc. |
| Controversial | Debatable, subject to dispute, a matter about which there are differing opinions. |
| Democratism | An ideology or octrine which posits democracy as the acceptable goal.. |
| Denizen | Refers to anyone residing in or inhabiting an area. |
| Dissident | One who disagrees with the prevailing autorities in a country. Applied to opponents of Communist regimes in 1970 and 1980s. |
| Elite | Persons who rule or dominate on the basis of their assumed superiority. |
| Environmentalism | An ideology which supports the preservation of the integrity of natural environments. |
| Epistemology | That branch of philosophy which deals with the nature and grounds of knowledge, its limits and validity. |
| Ethnic Group | Refers to grupings of people, racially or culturally related to one another. |
| Ethnocetric | A focs upon one's own ethnic group, its ways, beliefs, language and outlook to the extent that other ethnic groups are ignored, excluded, or avoided. |
| Feminism | A doctrine or ideology which holds that women are or should be equals with men. |
