The speedway Board of Directors when the track opened consisted of Chairman Dan Lufkin, of Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette ; CEO David Lockton ; Donald Riehl, of DLJ ; William Loorz, CEO of Stolte Construction ; Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, and Dick Smothers from the entertainment industry ; J. C. Agajanian, an American motor sport promoter and race car owner ; Parnelli Jones, 1963 winner of the Indianapolis 500 ; Roger Penske, retired race car driver, race car owner and auto related business entrepreneur ; Briggs Cunningham, an American sportsman who raced cars and yachts ; and Chuck Barnes, Chairman and CEO of Sports Headliners, and former Director of Public Relations for Firestone Tires.

It was also responsible for the arms race, as both nations struggled to keep nuclear parity, or at least retain second-strike capability.

Even so, he wrote, " We believe the white race, by their intellectual and traditional superiority, will retain sufficient ascendancy to prevent any serious mischief from the new order of things.

It was here that 7 times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong had his most difficult moment, in the 2000 race, although he sufficiently limited his losses to retain the Yellow Jersey.

An embittered Brown entered the race anyway, and the votes he pulled from Beckham likely allowed Logan to retain the seat.

With the announcement that the Japanese Grand Prix would switch from the Suzuka Circuit to the Fuji Speedway from 2007, there had been media speculation that Suzuka may retain a race under a resurrection of the Pacific Grand Prix title.

To retain ballot access a third party has to poll 20 % in a state wide race and it will retain state wide ballot access through to the next election.

The motor racing circuit re-opened on 27 May 1977, the first postwar race meeting was organised by the Nottingham Sports Car Club, but that nearly didn't happen, as the local ramblers tried to assert their rights to retain access to footpaths at the eleventh hour.

She wrote that Celts descended from the Red race of Atlantis, but intermingled with the White race to retain the red hair but not the red skin tone.

Due to safety concerns, especially by Helmut Marko, who called the race " totally insane ", the last Targa Florio as a World Sportscar Championship race was run in 1973 ; where during this event it became impossible to retain its international status after a number of horrendous and 2 fatal accidents at the event ; one which privateer Charles Blyth crashed his Lancia Fulvia HF into a trailer at the end of the Buonfornello straight and was killed ; and another where an Italian driver crashed his Alpine-Renault into a group of spectators, killing one.

After a string of DNFs since his win in the second race of the season in Portugal, Ayrton Senna drove a great race into second from a lowly ( for him ) 14th in the grid with Alboreto third in in the spare Ferrari 156 / 85 to retain a share of the World Championship lead.

In the 122nd General Assembly ( the 1997 – 1998 session ), he chose to retain that post after dropping out of the race for majority whip, the fourth ranking post in the Republican leadership.

The Gakhars appear to represent an early wave of conquerors from the west, and who still inhabit a large tract in the east of the district ; while the Awans, who now cluster in the western plain, are apparently later invaders, the Gakhars were the dominant race during the early Muslim era and they long continued to retain their independence, both in Jhelum itself and in the neighbouring district of Rawalpindi.

In 2004, which saw Republicans retain the White House and gain seats in the House and Senate, Crystal Ball correctly predicted the outcome of 525 of the 530 political races ( 99 % accuracy ), missing only one House race, one Senate race, one governor's race and two states in the Electoral College.

Commonly-cited examples of dog-whistle politics include civil rights-era use of the phrase " forced busing ," used to enable a person to imply opposition to racial integration without them needing to say so explicitly ; the state of Georgia's adoption, in 1956, of a flag visually similar to the Confederate battle flag, itself understood by many to be a dog-whistle for racism ; the phrase " Southern strategy ," used by the Republican Party in the 1960s to describe plans to gain influence in the South by appealing to people's racism ; Ronald Reagan, on the campaign trail in 1980, saying in Mississippi " I believe in states ' rights " ( a sentence the New Statesman later described as " perhaps the archetypal dog-whistle statement "), described as implying Reagan believed that states should be allowed, if they want, to retain racial segregation ; Reagan's use of the term " welfare queens ," said to be designed to rouse racial resentment among white working-class voters against minorities ; a 2008 TV ad for Republican presidential candidate John McCain called " The One ," which observers said dog-whistled to evangelical Christians who believed Obama might be the Antichrist ; a Tea Party spokeswoman saying President Obama " doesn't love America like we do ," thought to be an allusion to Obama's race and to the birth certificate controversy, and Republicans frequently emphasizing Obama's middle name for the same reason ; an aide to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney saying Romney would be a better President than Obama because Romney understood the " shared Anglo-Saxon heritage " of the United States and the United Kingdom ; former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, and others, calling Obama " the food stamps president " said to be a way of exploiting stereotypes among racially resentful white voters who see food stamps as unearned giveaways to minorities.

Red Bull Racing decided that Vitantonio Liuzzi would retain his race seat for one round, before Christian Klien would take over for the Canadian Grand Prix and onwards.

Räikkönen was able to retain his 1 second gap back to Schumacher to take the race win, with Barrichello more than 30 seconds behind in 3rd position.

However, the elections were marred by controversy in the Senate race over the calculation of whether Senate candidates had achieved the majority required to avoid a run-off election ( in Haiti, seats where no candidate wins an absolute majority of votes cast has to enter a second-round run-off election ).

His view of life is deterministic and the basis of his religious thinking is the predestinate recognition of the necessity of all temporal existence as an effect of the absolute, eternal, and immutable will of God, so that even the fall of the human race appears to him essential to the divine plan of the world.

The Left, led by Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin, whom Chirac had defeated in the 1995 presidential race, unexpectedly won a solid National Assembly majority ( 319 seats, with 289 required for an absolute majority ).

* Krypton was very briefly depicted in the first Fleischer Studios-produced Superman cartoon in the early 1940s as " a planet that burned like a green star in the distant heavens where civilization was far advanced and it brought forth a race of Supermen whose mental and physical powers were developed to the absolute peak of human perfection ," implying that all Kryptonians had Superman's abilities even on their own planet.

Foucault shows that what specifies this discourse from the juridical and philosophical discourse is its conception of truth: truth is no longer absolute, it is the product of " race struggle ".

The voting is conducted in several rounds, under a form of exhaustive ballot: in the first two rounds, anyone can enter their name ; but in subsequent rounds, the person receiving the fewest votes is removed from the race until one candidate gains an absolute majority.

Beyond the absolute prohibition of discrimination against trade union members, the EA 2010 combats discrimination based on gender ( including pregnancy ), race, sexuality ( including marital status ), belief, disability and age.

The implementation of the NEP was one of the NOC's first decisions, and the plan had the stated goal of " eventually eradicat poverty ... irrespective of race " through a rapidly expanding economy, which would reduce the non-Malay share of the economy in relative terms, while increasing it in absolute terms.

Carr did not win an absolute majority of the vote, perhaps foreshadowing the 1894 election, in which Democrats lost control of the legislature to an electoral fusion of Populists and Republicans, and the 1896 election, in which Democrats lost the governor's race for the first time since 1872.

The NEP aimed to eradicate poverty irrespective of race by expanding the economic pie so that the Chinese share of the economy would not be reduced in absolute terms but only relatively.

In both these communications the reasons for the intervention of the United States are based upon sentiments of justice and humanity, no American citizens being involved ; in the communication to Minister Porter stress was laid upon the peculiar propriety and right of the intervention of the United States, because its political and civil institutions make no distinction in favor of individuals by reason of race or creed, but treat all with absolute equality.

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A believer in the absolute superiority of the Aryan race, Fritsch was upset by the changes brought on by rapid industrialization and urbanization, and called for a return to the traditional peasant values and customs of the distant past, which he believed exemplified the essence of the Volk.

The conflict is revealed as a bitter war of annihilation between the baatezu race and the tanar ' ri ; an absolute, all encompassing, and virtually eternal struggle.

A terrorist group led by the supernatural entity known as the Black Cross Führer, their goal is the total eradication of the human race and the absolute domination of the world.

The race was the closest Senate election of 2006 in terms of absolute vote difference ; the closest race by percentage difference was the Virginia senate election.

If a car's qualifying time was not within 107 % of the pole sitter's time, that car would not qualify for the race, unless at the discretion of the race stewards for a situation such as a rain affected qualifying session.

The novel by Firbank echoes themes central to The Swimming Pool Library ; secrets and discretion ; extreme old age, colonialism, race and camp ; the sense of deeper truths residing behind a thin façade of artifice.

2. And be it further enacted, That if by or under the authority of the constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of any Territory, any act is or shall be required to be done as a prerequisite or qualification for voting, and by such constitution or laws persons or officers are or shall be charged with the performance of duties in furnishing to citizens an opportunity to perform such prerequisite, or to become qualified to vote, it shall be the duty of every such person and officer to give to all citizens of the United States the same and equal opportunity to perform such prerequisite, and to become qualified to vote without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ; and if any such person or officer shall refuse or knowingly omit to give full effect to this section, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action on the case, with full costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court shall deem just, and shall also, for every such offence, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than one month and not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court .”

Their only goal is to cross the line within a certain limit — usually the stage winner's time plus 15 % -- or else they'll be disqualified from the race ( at the discretion of the officials ; on rare occasions a lead breakaway becomes so large that the entire peloton falls that far back and would normally be allowed to remain in the competition to avoid having only a small field still in competition ).

The AFL claimed to not exclude the black members because of their race but because they were not qualified for the part.

" Further, the view of oppression of women as a " transhistorical phenomenon " allowed middle-class white women to minimize the benefits of their own race and class privilege and tended to exclude women from history.

After his second rejection, Bakke filed an action in state court for mandatory, injunctive, and declaratory relief to compel his admission to Davis, alleging that the special admissions program operated to exclude him on the basis of his race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Some refer to using race as a basis to exclude applicants as a racial quota system.

Critics of the term have alleged that it aims to reject people or ideas on the grounds of race or sex, and that the term may encourage academics to exclude the valuable ideas of those who are white, male, and dead from college curricula.

Batson v. Kentucky,, was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor's use of peremptory challenge — the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so — may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.

Finally, the defendant must show that such facts and any other relevant circumstances raise an inference that the prosecutor used peremptory challenges to exclude the veniremen from the petit jury on account of their race.

However, the Equal Protection Clause guarantees the defendant that the State will not exclude members of his race from the jury venire on account of race, or on the false assumption that members of his race as a group are not qualified to serve as jurors ; and

Berger was thus declared the winner, but the race stewards ' decision to exclude them was overturned at an appeal hearing on April 13.

The Court ’ s 5 to 3 decision, delivered by Justice Horace Gray, ruled that the if the U. S. as a sovereign nation had the power to exclude any person or any race it wished, it also must be able to deport any person or race it wished, and thus upheld the Geary Act.

The organisers decided together with the cyclists to exclude the final kilometre from the race, and make the control post in Ville-d ' Avray the end of the race.

The test was a method which enabled immigration officials to exclude individuals on the basis of race without explicitly saying so.

He wrote, " Cornish correctly identifies ' the twist of the investigation ' as the thesis that ' Nazi metaphysics, as discernible in Hitler's writings ... is nothing but Wittgenstein's theory of the mind modified so as to exclude the race of its inventor '.