An ethnic group originally from somewhere north of China (perhaps western Manchuria), which subsequently spread through migration and conquest across the steppes into Central Asia; by the 800s many served as servants within the Umayyad caliphate, and by the 900s many were soldiers or even generals under the Abbasids and its successor states--before eventually taking over much of the Asian portion of the Islamic world (perhaps in the process saving Sunni Islam as the dominant branch of the faith)

is this just a comment. I don't see a question

uniform, random, and clumped.

explanation:

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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