Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday, the Board of Governors upheld the supensions of Adelstein and Bloom and stated that no discussions could take place "under duress." The students replied by refusing to abandon the demonstration; they opened a debate on whether to continue the sit-in during the Easter vacation and to establish a "free university" with faculty...
CLAO is optimistic that its test case will establish the rule that public hearings, with full counsel, must be held for even such supposedly temporary commitments...
Another test case seeks to establish a standard procedure for what the City Health Department calls "the little old lady syndrome." In the past, when a health inspector found an elderly person living alone who did not appear capable of taking care of himself--or who might be a danger to neighbors through carelessness--the inspector usually had him committed to a mental institution for observation...
...efforts to establish precedents can be frustrated, for targets of test cases will sometimes offer generous out-of-court settlements to avoid an adverse--and publicized--court ruling. They can then continue their practices, hoping only that their next victim does not go to CLAO...
...wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels and, Sadik believes, wants to establish a Moslem theocracy throughout the Sudan...