During the act's passage, conservative southern Democrats tried to wreck it by adding sex to race, religion and national origin as grounds for discrimination complaints.

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For instance, you may not have chosen to act, but the 2007-2009 equity bear market was a slow-moving train wreck where you had ample time to make adjustments, even if you had already seen a meaningful decline in your equity portfolio.

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Nineteen days after the wreck, its massive oil slick hit western Guernsey and in a reaction similar to the Cornish the authorities decided to act fast.

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