For if an organization does not hire the best talent due to institutional discrimination, the outfit will soon find itself at a competitive disadvantage to firms that base their personnel decisions exclusively on merit.

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Sotomayor lodged a grievance with what was then the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, accusing Princeton of an "institutional pattern of discrimination" in admissions and in hiring "Puerto Rican and Chicano" faculty.

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