The government used something called the salami technique—discrimination enacted one thin slice at a time.

None of these photographs of me are good, but this one is definitely the worst.

We shall now call the sequence of order ideals, ann z₁, ann z₂, ..., whose uniqueness has just been proved, the invariant factor ideals of the module M.

Although some opponents of Affirmative Action may be aversive racists/genderists, many others believe that it is morally wrong to consider at all a person's ethnicity or gender in decision making.