What is the best definition for the underlined word based on the following sentence? "douglass being captured after his first attempt at escaping was a calamity, and made him much more cautious before his second attempt."

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

to force terrorists groups to stop attacking western targets using massive military force.