Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roos's Lauretta is winsome. She draws the first spontaneous applause of the evening as her voice rises to the challenge of the opera's most famous set-piece, the aria "O mio babbino caro." Unfortunately, as she sings in Italian, most of the audience misses her tender appeal to her dear father, and her vow to drown herself in the Arno if her love for Rinuccio is thwarted...
...quota--the court has mostly sown confusion on this issue. Goals are O.K., it says. Numerical quotas, in most instances, are not. Just how to achieve the first without falling into the second has been a problem, one that is at the heart of a Texas case currently on appeal...
When Taxman sued, the Bush Justice Department sided with her. So did the court. The school board has appealed. The Clinton Justice Department, which inherited the case, remained on Taxman's side until last summer, when it switched. ``It was an appropriate affirmative-action plan,'' insists Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick, ``because race did not trump anything that matters.'' Except Taxman's job. A court ruling on the appeal is expected well in time for use in Republican campaign...
...Kroks held a similar benefit in 1989, when they sang with the Tigertones and the Wiffenpoofs in a concert sponsored by Interface Hunger Appeal, a group dedicated to relieving the effects of urban poverty...
Baker's attorneys filed an appeal on the bailhearing two days ago, but Baker remains in jail,pending a decision by the 6th Circuit Court ofAppeals in Cincinnati, according to one of Baker'slawyers. The student is expected to be freed onbond in the appeal...