Word: appealing
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Strange Allies. Yorty's strategy, which Bradley last week called a "blatant appeal to racial prejudice," was effective even beyond the mayoral contest. It produced a vote of 840,000, or 75% of the 1,100,000 voters eligible, 137,000 more than had turned out in April. Two school board candidates who traded heavily on the violence issue defeated moderate incumbents...
Root of Due Process. Over the centuries, the charter has been reissued in at least three slightly varying versions, and some of its archaic features have already been dropped. One provided: "No one shall be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman for the death of any person except her husband." Another proclaimed: "If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age." The legislation introduced in Parliament will repeal ten other clauses...
...Committee will release the results of its investigation to the students so that they may appeal the decision on two grounds: the factual findings-whether the students actually did what the deans charge-and the punishment decision itself. The students will be asked to submit any appeals as soon as possible, but the Committee probably will not adhere too strictly to any time limit for appeals...
...alumni association of the GSAS and the Kennedy School of Government, in this year's fund-raising appeal circulated from Holyoke Center, urges its members to "make your gift in support of academic freedom in higher education". The appeal is accompanied by a statement which begins...
Responsibility for the attachment of this statement to a fund-raising appeal rests presumably with the chairman and council of the Graduate Society, but also with ex-officio councillors Pusey, Ford, Price and Elder. Alumni who respond to the appeal should take pains to repudiate both the inappropriate political maneuvering, and the content of the statement with which, by virtue of their contribution, they would otherwise be associated. Sarah Kafatou...