Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolution passed with only two "no" votes. An amendment to include language calling on the University "to maintain the highest standards of academic excellence" in its effort to increase faculty diversity failed after brief debate...
...where the struggle began: in the Supreme Court. Though the court has not yet agreed to hear an abortion-related case this term, Thornburgh's Justice Department wasted no time in its efforts to place the subject on the docket. Just two days after the election, it filed a brief asking the high court to hear a case from Missouri. "If the court is prepared to reconsider Roe v. Wade," argued the document, "this case presents an appropriate opportunity for doing...
...quickens once the cool atmospheres and the cast of characters are established. Curious Bernie learns he is being used, but the stronger his suspicions, the more forceful are his bosses' warnings to lay off. At one point, he is ordered across the Atlantic and the American continent for a brief, foreboding chat with an ex-colleague he believed had been killed in Europe...
...Directed Solicitor General Charles Fried to file a brief with the Supreme Court urging a reappraisal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that guarantees a woman's right to an abortion...
Army officials said that shortly after the plane landed, two men and a woman came out of the plane and asked for a translator. They then started brief negotiations in which the hijackers surrendered...