Word: act
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...think this is a citywide issue," she said. "As citizens, we have to battle for the right think. It's time to act on trucks if we are going to have a city that is livable in the future...
...This is not an act of disrespect," said Maggie L Schmitt '99. "This is more of a celebration of what Harvard should be about...
...across these facilities and resources that Harvard is known for, however, you should always remember a less-obvious purpose that these facilities serve: to attract new students every year to study at this school. As pointed out by my House Master at Commencement this spring, Harvard's excellent resources act to draw in students from all over the world to make up a unique community of peers with whom you can live and study. He pointed out that we often learn as much, or even more, from outside of our classrooms than inside, as our interactions with our peers form...
...world where everyone can be diagnosed as having a medical condition of some sort, what does it mean to be disabled? In a trio of decisions on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, as far as the Americans With Disabilities Act is concerned, disability does not mean poor eyesight or high blood pressure. The ADA, one of the nation?s major civil rights measures, bans discrimination by employers against handicapped workers. Because of its broad language -- a disability is any condition that limits a major life activity -- the statute has been generously interpreted over the years by the Supreme...
...Writing for the Court, Justice Sandra Day O?Connor said that "the ADA?s coverage is restricted to only those whose impairments are not mitigated by corrective measures." People whose conditions are easily dealt with by medications or simple devices like eyeglasses are not protected under the act. "This was clearly a line-drawing set of decisions," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen, "and now it will be important to see how the line-drawing gets done in the lower courts...