Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, when the court considers head on, for the first time, whether affirmative action is appropriate to remedy employment discrimination against women. In addition, the Justices will review a court-ordered promotion plan for blacks imposed on Alabama state troopers. The cases will be closely watched because the high bench has yet to define completely its views on affirmative action. "The permissible scope is unclear," says Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. "The cases are being decided one by one." In a major church-state dispute, the court will decide whether Louisiana violated the bar on establishment of religion by requiring...
...almost every baseball fan knows, Williams went into the last game of the 1941 season hitting .400 and could have warmed the bench for the meaningless game. Instead, he went six-for-eight in a doubleheader and raised his average...
Instead, Mattingly went 2-for-5 and Boggs, after playing a "grueling" 149 games (Mattingly played all 162) was allowed to sit on the bench--and on his undeserved batting title...
Imagine Harvard tying Oklahoma, and you can picture the scene of jubilation on the Crimson bench as the stickwomen--after 90 minutes of exhausting play--forced a 1-1 deadlock with the nationally-ranked Huskies in front of 40 spectators...
With the game's outcome no longer in doubt, Hafferty substituted players freely. "It was a good opportunity for us to let everybody on the bench play, and for me to see different people in different combinations," he noted...