Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear what Bush and other Republicans who have espoused right-to-life views are trying to accomplish. While the abortion funding debate worked to their favor, they gave it a prominent slot on the GOP docket. But as soon as they felt a shift in the political weather, they tried to dismiss the issue. "It's no longer important if it puts wind in their sails, not ours," they said, but the voters, especially those in Virginia, didn...
That is a chilling thought for civil libertarians -- and a comforting one for conservatives. With abortion, race discrimination, religion and obscenity again crowding the docket, the court is now in a position to press on with much of Ronald Reagan's unfinished social agenda...
John R. Marquand said discussion of the affirmative action report was already on the preliminary docket for the May 16 Faculty meeting. "I fully expect it will be on the final agenda," he added...
...Office or in state legislatures. The showdown will take place where the struggle began: in the Supreme Court. Though the court has not yet agreed to hear an abortion-related case this term, Thornburgh's Justice Department wasted no time in its efforts to place the subject on the docket. Just two days after the election, it filed a brief asking the high court to hear a case from Missouri. "If the court is prepared to reconsider Roe v. Wade," argued the document, "this case presents an appropriate opportunity for doing...
Sometimes the bad guys get put in the docket: the bad guy lurking in any man ready to act on his suspicion that an attractive woman is his for the taking. Sometimes the good guys, like the Accused team, win a small victory for women: women who should not ever have to decide, on pain of assault, whether they are good women or bad ones, victims or vamps...