Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court decided in the Weber case [July 9] that discrimination is acceptable as a means to end discrimination. This logic reminds me of nothing so much as those haunting words from the war in Viet Nam: we had to destroy the town in order to save...
...Weber ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court captured the spirit of the civil rights movement. Such an interpretation can act to reassure many that possibly the American dream can be realized...
...practice in Baltimore by Georgian Charles Kirbo, President Carter's top preInauguration adviser, to head the department's criminal division. In his service there, Civiletti won praise as a "lawyers' lawyer" who believed in strong preparation for building criminal cases that would stand up in court...
...deadlines were not met, the board could make the decisions itself, and its rulings could be challenged judicially only in federal appeals courts. That would skip several levels of legal intervention; the lawsuits spawned by almost any energy project now often start out in local courts and migrate slowly from there to federal district courts. Almost any controversial decision made by the board would be challenged as un constitutional by back-home politicians and environmentalists, and several of the countless legal battles might drag up slowly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Administration aides hope that the high court would reject...
...Labor Department lost the first round in court and is appealing. Senator Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) has presented a bill to the Senate allowing resident assistants to be exempt from minimum wage laws...