Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nixon damned the dead, by saying, "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy." But the students killed weren't pitching stones, and three weren't even protesting. They were just passing through. If it were any other day, they might have walked right past it without noticing it was there, as I first...
Some of his stances reinforce lingering qualms that he is driven primarily by a desire to leap to the top of the ladder. Many of the causes he has embraced, like revitalizing education, are apple-pie issues that provoke little dissent. Others, such as his opposition to the colorization of Hollywood films, can be ridiculed as merely trendy. More significantly, he has edged leftward from his moderate moorings (he was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group) as he plays to the liberal activists who dominate the Iowa caucuses. He has reversed his support of tuition...
...ruled against the so-called legislative veto, a once common practice under which Congress would grant certain authority to the Executive Branch but reserve to itself the right to disapprove particular actions exercising that authority. Kennedy declared that the practice violated the constitutional separation of powers. In a 1983 dissent, Kennedy argued that a court should admit evidence gathered by police under a search warrant that they believed in "good faith" to be properly executed but that was later found invalid. The Supreme Court eventually ruled his way on both subjects...
...bipartisan harmony. But reaching a consensus on their final report was more difficult: all six Republican House members and two of the five Republican Senators refused to sign the majority report because they thought it too tough on Reagan and his men. They will instead issue a 150-page dissent...
...Geisel himself called the decompression "relative democracy." In the words of a Brazilian political scientist, the 'distensao' was an effort to "perfect the institutionalization of the national security state and provide for more flexible political representation so as to decrease the levels of dissent and tension that had built up pressure." Maria Helena Moreira Alves, State and Opposition in Military Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press...