Word: beare
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ACORN also wrote Bok Monday to notify him of the Princeton request. The letter said Bok "will probably find this [Princeton] distinguished company in support of your affirmative action on our requests." However, the letter said Harvard should bear "the lion's share of responsibility and action" on the plant, because it owns more Middle South stock than Princeton...
...Neill is a gregarious, backslapping, poker-playing Boston Irish politician out of a renowned tradition (see box), a great, shaggy bear of a man (6 ft. 2 in., 268 lbs.) who is equally at home bellowing Irish ditties or talking history with Harvard professors...
...have been relatively less lucrative, in part because the Federal Energy Office controls most prices for petroleum products. But rising worldwide prices of crude also have pushed up domestic prices. Imported oil is free from F.E.O. regulation, and the companies charge as much for it as the market will bear...
...continuity are valid goals, long leave requirements are unnecessarily rigid. They violate the due-process clause, said Justice Potter Stewart, because there is a constitutionally protected "freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life." Therefore long mandatory leaves "unduly penalize a female teacher for deciding to bear a child." Justice William Rehnquist, joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger, dissented. They felt that the new precedent could be used to attack other regulations, such as those governing retirement. In any case, the new precedent, coupled with recent Government regulations on equal opportunity, will reach beyond schools to affect...
...cops think, 'Well, they're lying like that, so I'm going to do it too.' " Columbia Law Professor Richard Uviller, a former prosecutor, observes that false testimony by cops can be divided into two categories. The all too familiar "white lie" does not directly bear on a suspect's guilt or innocence. A cop may say falsely, for instance, that he gave the required warnings about a suspect's rights because, to a policeman, that is merely a bothersome technicality. According to Uviller and most other observers, the more serious form of police...