Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University made an extremely unwise move in deciding to drop its appeal against the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). President Bok now appears foolish after investing Harvard's reputation and moral weight against unionizing Harvard's more than 3500 pink-collar workers...
...Harvard is going to base its appeal on the value of defending democracy--namely by insuring that the 49 percent of the employees who voted against the union were not ill-served by irregular voting practices--then it had better follow through. In American society, universities alone have the luxury of pursuing goals based on abstract values and higher goods. Universities don't have to act according to some debased calculus that balances the chances of winning against the negative effects on union relations...
...deportations, reliable sources say, both men will propose to close the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, a hotbed of unrest, and disperse its 60,000 residents throughout the Strip in newly built housing. They would also push for legislation denying Palestinians in the occupied territories the right to appeal to the Israeli High Court of Justice...
...would have exploited Dukakis' furlough policy if Horton were white. Yet the glee with which Bush's campaign team leaped upon the Horton affair belies its denials that it intended to tweak white prejudices. In Horton, Bush's staff found a potent symbolic twofer: a means by which to appeal to the legitimate issue of crime while simultaneously stirring racial fears...
...guilty of two violations within five years, the N.C.A.A. can invoke the death penalty. "Kansas was on the bubble," commented David Berst, N.C.A.A. director of enforcement, "but no severe violations involved any of the players on the team." Kansas athletic director Robert Frederick said the school will not appeal the probation, which will subject recruiting to rigorous scrutiny...