Word: dissention
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According to the Globe, a dissent came fromcommittee member Professor Elizabeth Bartholet,who said the guidelines fail to go far enoughsince they only deal with hate speech directedagainst individuals...
...output of goods and services this year is widely expected to rise at least 3%. That is considered a sustainable rate that can continue to reduce unemployment -- which has fallen from a peak of 7.7% to 6.5%-without reigniting inflation. The most important dissent comes from the Federal Reserve Board, whose governors appear to think the economy right at the moment is growing a bit too fast. If the Fed does raise interest rates again soon, it will be to keep easy credit from fueling an overly rapid advance...
...took was giving up movies and cigarettes for a week. But as in baseball, where he passionately rooted for the hapless Chicago Cubs along with his hometown Minnesota Twins, he came to defend the underdogs in life: blacks, women, gays, aliens, Native Americans. By 1977, in a dissent from the majority's denial of funds for Medicaid abortions, he was aware of " 'another world' out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize." Just two months ago, he came to the defense of life's greatest losers when he pronounced that...
...replace him. Not long after the start of the court's present term in October, Blackmun confided to the President that it would probably be his last. For those who did not get advance word, the imminent departure of the 85-year-old Justice was predictable from his passionate dissent on a death-penalty case in February. When he declared his categorical opposition to "the machinery of death," it was in the valedictory tone of a man writing with one eye on history and one foot out the door...
...Hance execution comes in the midst of growing scrutiny of the death penalty. A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote an impassioned dissent in which he concluded that "the death-penalty experiment has failed." By contrast, Justice Antonin Scalia, a supporter of capital punishment who is fed up with last-minute appeals before the court, last week chastised a defense lawyer for waiting too long to seek a federal stay for a Texas execution. That outburst came during arguments for a case involving a federal court's right to intervene in a state execution. Tempers may grow even...