Word: courtly
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First, it promotes equal representation of minorities and eliminates the gerrymandering and redrawing of single-seat districts, replacing these districts with one multi-member district that proportionally elects a number of candidates. This characteristic is paramount in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Miller v. Johnson, which struck down race-conscious districting as unconstitutional. Proportional representation is a racially nonbiased means of accomplishing representative minority presence within our political institutions and can serve to convince minority voters of the purpose and value of their votes...
...field next to the courts, a bunch of nine-year-olds do football exercises. 1-2-3-5, 1-2-3-6, 1-2-3-7, they chant. The basketball bounces against the court floor...
...Alex smiles. He jumps down onto the court...
...When the show got underway, the mostly 20-something crowd was more attuned to the television and the BoSox game than the first contestant, Fred, who tends at T.G.I. Friday's. The crowd was more supportive of Rebekah, who had a home court advantage since she tends at the Blue Cat. Unlike Fred, Rebekah prepared the drinks simultaneously, instead of in order. Consequently, in the end, her ordering produced faster results...
Investigative journalists breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday when a federal appeals court ruled that ABC won?t have to pay supermarket chain Food Lion a substantial damage award after all. The decision reverses a verdict that had been seen as a significant erosion of First Amendment rights. At issue was a 1992 "Primetime Live" expos? of unsanitary Food Lion practices such as bleaching old meat to cover its odor and re-dating foods. A North Carolina jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million (later reduced to $350,000), reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used...