Word: appeals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the vote came so unexpectedly, administrators are still unsure of the future of the supercomputing center, whether the university will appeal the NSF's decision and what factors were responsible for Cornell's proposal being denied...
Callahan said the university does not know whether it will appeal the decision until the NSF makes the review of Cornell's proposal public...
...different styles for almost every demographic position and taste, a strategy that eventually gave way to identical cars bearing different nameplates. But segmentation is back in vogue, and for GM that means re-emphasizing traditional middle-American, mainstream strengths at Chevrolet while almost totally overhauling the customer base and appeal at Oldsmobile. Image makers at Olds are seeking to shed the stodgy, budget-priced profile that appealed to older buyers (the average age of its Ciera sedan buyers crested at a silvery 68--it was your father's Oldsmobile) into one that is being meticulously groomed and patterned to attract...
...Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the law. According to current federal guidelines, it takes 100 times more cocaine powder than crack to draw the same 10-year minimum sentence for drug dealing. Because crack is more prevalent in poor, predominantly black inner-city areas, an appeal by a consortium of attorneys (including Johnnie Cochran) argued that the law unfairly targets blacks, while letting suburban whites--the primary consumers of powder cocaine off with a lesser sentence for carrying the same amount of the drug. The case involved a black man, Duane Edwards, who was arrested...
Jones admits that he is hesitant about the appeal of his subject matter to a broad audience and thus to the profit-minded publishing industry, but he points to a recent rise in writing published by younger writers...