Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspect. This is a crucial time in the nation's future, when education is critical for restoring America's economic health. And with progress on civil rights and fighting poverty stalled, the federal government must provide aid for all low-income and minority students to ensure them equal access to college and jobs. With so much at stake, a college education should not have to rely on the political calculations of presidential candidates...
...measure appropriating money for StopWithholding Access Today (SWAT), a student groupformed to raise money and build support forSchkolnick's complaint, passed by a margin of 21votes. All four final club members again votedagainst the proposal...
...first vote was on a proposal to endorse a senior's discrimination complaint against a final club and to call on final clubs to admit women. The second vote was on a proposal to give $250 to Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT), a student group pledging to support the current complaint against a final club. The second vote took no stand on the complaint...
Shultz also told a news conference the Soviets indicated they would be more flexible in handling emigration applications, except for those from people who have had access to state secrets...
Civil rights cases are among the thorniest faced by courts because they so often involve competing principles of social justice: protecting affirmative action for blacks vs. honoring seniority in the workplace; providing equal job access for women vs. giving civil service preference to veterans, who are mostly male. Striving for balance, while zigzagging through such moral thickets, often leads to apparently contradictory precedents. Having ruled for one side, the same court may find for the other the next time an issue comes...