Word: brief
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...amicus curiae court brief on the controversial Bakke case filed in the Supreme Court Monday by the Department of Justice argues in favor of affirmative action programs, and thus supports the position of the University of California in that case, the university's general counsel said yesterday...
...amicus curiae or "friend of the court" brief is submitted to the court as an indication of the belief of a person or institution interested in a case...
Donald Reidhaar, general counsel to the Regents of the University of California, said yesterday the government's brief "is quite supportive" of the university's position in recognizing that the problem of gross underrepresentation of minorities in professional schools can only be alleviated by taking race into account in admissions...
...Restic did not say how much better, so while the Lions, who have slowly edged closer to mediocrity during Campbell's brief tenure in Upper Manhattan, may be improved over last fall's 3-6 club, they shouldn't be improved enough to ruin the Crimson's first road opener since the Marshall Plan...
...fortunate position in the world. Raised in the Edenic splendors of the Devon countryside before the war and educated in the genteel bower of Oxford afterward, he falls into an existence in which occasional bumps are easily cushioned by his status and talent. His marriage fails and his brief career as a London dramatist is not the roaring success he had hoped for. But Martin's skill at writing dialogue lands him movie jobs, money, amorous actresses and, eventually, a well-heeled expatriate life in Hollywood...