Judge Henderson's lengthy opinion identified what he called "a narrow but significant window" where the Supreme Court has upheld affirmative action: when it is undertaken to correct past discrimination.

However, as long as such action is needed to correct discrimination, in fact, it is a case of legitimate differentiation under the Covenant.

The admission has spawned efforts at universities across the country to correct discrimination against women in the sciences.

The civil rights division in the Justice Department led an attack on court-ordered measures to correct discrimination, based on the administration's opposition to quotas as discriminatory against whites.

The European Union's highest court ruled that preferential hiring and promotional practices could be used to correct earlier discrimination.

For six years the Reagan Administration has insisted that courts cannot order race-conscious remedies even where efforts to correct discrimination have met with steady resistance.

Catholics would also benefit from measures to correct historic discrimination.

Today, young activists from privileged backgrounds and elite universities argue that America's poor, its minorities and women deserve no advantage to correct past discrimination at work and school.

The majority opinion argues frankly against color-conscious remedial action to correct past discrimination.

A caller asked whether it would be proper to single out certain neighborhoods or ethnic groups for loans with more lenient terms in an effort to correct discrimination.