Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...details of the case, especially of the contents and procedure of the appeal, are being kept secret, and high-ranking university officials were unavailable for comment on the case this week...
While the purpose of the paper is to "get the fringe--what's looked upon as the aberrations," Nidle also wants a broad readership. He said he believes a slick look will appeal to a wider audience and more advertisers...
...public punished those who were too critical of his whoppers. It was a vast communal exercise in make-believe. There had to be more to Reagan than shallowness and deception, since he was so clearly sincere and his sincerity impressed others so indelibly. He became invulnerable in his personal appeal and winsomeness, and others had to summon up more and more of their own credulity along with expressions of respect. The very fabric of our politics was shot through with unreality. The Secretary of State pretended to be following a strong President while he was yielding to shadowy figures...
...Reagan Administration by the high bench, which last term spurned the Justice Department's contention that affirmative action should be used only to remedy harm to individual victims of discrimination. This time the department, which brought the case to the Supreme Court when the troopers declined to appeal, argued simply that affirmative relief must be narrowly tailored, like "hand and glove." Solicitor General Charles Fried denounced the one-for-one quota as "excessive" and "profoundly illegal...
When a judge ruled in the tribe's favor in February, Wambui Otieno obtained an order blocking the burial pending an appeal this month. Wangari Mathai, chairman of Kenya's National Council of Women, last week gathered signatures for a petition that calls on parliament to safeguard the rights of surviving spouses...