Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importance of public education. In writing the majority decision, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor addressed the issue directly: "Nor have we accepted the proposition that education is a fundamental right like equality of the franchise, which should trigger strict scrutiny when the government interferes with an individual's access...
...opportunity for a new assignment. He wanted his own command this time, free of senior patrons, such as Richardson and Baker. Though he lacked a strong relationship with Bush, he was soon an economic adviser. Darman's friends in the Bush camp made sure he had ample access; he capitalized on that by enthusiastically elaborating on the "flexible-freeze" scheme, the core of Bush's fiscal program...
...different set of issues arises when reporters do gain access to victims. Jacqui Banaszynski, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, won a Pulitzer Prize last year for a lengthy series about a gay couple dying of AIDS. Privy to the most intimate details of the lives of both the men and their families, Banaszynski had to balance her sense of loyalty to her subjects against her desire to make the series as truthful as possible. "I would not print information so private that it would harm without enhancing," she says...
...offer theories and rhetoric, but we offer $25,200 for college," says Lieut. Colonel John Cullen, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Still, the Department of Defense next month plans to argue in favor of overturning a 1988 federal-court decision that would allow antiwar activists equal access to career days in Atlanta high schools. In a landmark case five years ago, an interfaith peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote its cause among Chicago high school students. Yet in San Diego, the site of a large naval installation, the Project...
...doors and check identification. It seems that Harvard is looking for the easy way out of a problem which must be addressed. The stairways and elevators in the Science Center should be more carefully monitored, and even locked, so that "a person with an unauthorized purpose" does not have access to the quiet upper floors where people often study or work alone...