How did the United States feel about the launching of “Sputnik”?

Americans reacted with dismay that soviets could have gotten so far ahead of the supposedly technologically superior united states.

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affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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the northwest territory became the most densely populated area in the u.s.