Word: deem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Republican Club call upon all students who deem this action by President Clinton irresponsible and inconsistent with the best interests of the American people to contact your representatives or senators immediately in order to show your outrage with the President's veto. --Jay M. Dickerson '98 President of the Harvard Republican Club
Aficionados of speech that liberals or conservatives might deem indecent have a similar, moral right to air their alleged perversities, or share information about sexual activity, even when children are eavesdropping. Since the possibility of eavesdropping on the Internet is practically unavoidable, the telecommunications law requires that adults limit their conversations to whatever a court may consider fit for children. (Even sexually explicit speech with "redeeming social value" is included in this ban; "indecency" is defined as a "patently offensive" description of sexual or excretory activities or organs.) Federal law now treats any "indecent" cyberspeech between consenting adults that children...
...publishing house has the right to reject any manuscript it does not deem worthy of print. If Cambridge University Press deems Karakasidou's book unpublishable, Karakasidou has the right to peddle it to other presses. If the book has value, then the market system predicts that other presses will be willing to publish it. The staff quietly notes that the University of Chicago Press is willing...
Another change suggested by the Undergraduate Council members was to change the language of the resolution to deem phases the currently prominent reference to financial administration...
Memorials are primarily symbolic. Memorials do not simply express tragedy. Harvard does not erect memorials to those who die in car accidents or train wrecks. Our war dead are honored because we deem them to have made a heroic sacrifice. Our memorials implicitly endorse and commemorate the causes and ideals that soldiers die for. Memorials do more than just express regret that a Harvard graduate was struck by a bullet or a cannonball...