Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Council on Education (ACE), along with 24 related organizations, asked the Court in a recent brief to confine the scope 'of its decision to the virtually unknown New Jersey school district-and far away from university admissions committees...
...case is on appeal from the Third Circuit, which ruled that the board could never use diversity as a reason for making employment decisions based on race. The brief asks the Court to "reject the unnecessarily broad pronouncement" made by the lower court...
Though the University filed a brief in the Bakke case-and though Harvard College's admissions process was heralded in the majority decision as the model to be followed-it will rely on the efforts of various higher education associations to present its view in this case. Twenty-five associations filed a brief two weeks ago that encouraged the court to issue a narrow ruling pertaining only to the specifics of the case...
...talks and that she was "totally unaware" that in 1995 Lau, his companies and a business associate paid $3 million to settle a federal lawsuit charging them with making false declarations to Customs. Hayes says she knows nothing of Lau's links to the Democratic Party. Of her apparently brief sessions with Lau and his lobbyist this year and last in San Francisco and Beijing, she simply says, "Stephen offered his assistance...
...medical community has reason to be skittish about the disease. The last encephalitis outbreak in Florida occurred in 1990, and during that brief epidemic, 230 people were infected, 11 fatally. The strain of the virus then--as now--was St. Louis encephalitis, a nasty pathogen that at first causes nothing more serious than flulike symptoms but that eventually may cause fever, coma and occasionally death. The New York strain is the rarer but more dangerous Eastern equine encephalitis, a disease that begins with fever, neck stiffness and headaches and may culminate in a swelling of the brain that claims...