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Islam's emphasis on female modesty is increasingly familiar to Americans observing Muslim neighbors wearing head scarves and, during the Olympics, some nations' limitations of women's participation in sports such as archery. Similarly, strictly observant Orthodox Jewish women wear wigs or kerchiefs in public.
Many Christians' beliefs about modesty are also continually at odds with current dictates of fashion and the mass media.
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That's why it is so important that Blackowned businesses work now to build capacity so that they can compete if and when requests for bids on lucrative Olympics contracts go out. For some small businesses, that might mean joint venturing with other firms. Already, the usual suspects-I'm talking about the key business players whose names have become synonymous with the big-money deals going down in the city-are already carving out niches for themselves. If the Black community waits until the official Olympics site is announced, it might already be too late to ensure an equitable level of participation.
We can't let that happen. This city has a painful history, particularly in the construction sector, as it relates to contractual and job opportunities for African Americans and women. Now ...
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... as Black September at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the boycott of the 1976 Olympic Games to denou...SPORT AND THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES. Turkey was the first Muslim c... of a new era in Muslim women's participation in international sporting events. For female athle...
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As Mike Davies took a chance to take a peek 2 1/2 months into the future and speculate about the impact the Olympic tennis tournament would have on the annual pro tournament in New Haven, a stream of uproarious laughter filled the air the moment the words left the mouth of the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament president and chief executive officer.
Barring good luck for us," Davies said before stopping in mid- sentence.
...Open. The women's tournament has annually drawn fields which belie... tennis federations of their Olympic participation status. Sixth-ranked American Andy Roddick on the ...
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...WALLACE, Circuit Judge:. Certain women runners and runners' organizations (the women runn... and officials of those entities (the Olympics organizations). The Olympics organizations removed... reviewed the history of women's participation in the Games and concluded that the women runners ...
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... the same time that African American participation in professional and collegiate sports was growing,... to international events such as the Olympics. Research has also demonstrated that bias can take.... Gantz, W., & Wenner, L. A. (1991). Men, women and sports: Audience experiences and effects. Jour...