Word: exclusionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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*November 1990: Congress gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Louis W. Sullivan, authority to create a new list of diseases which justify exclusion from the U.S. At the time, the list includes HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but also contains a waiver which allows travel in the...
The hottest ethical issue for journalists these days is where to draw the line between two colliding rights, the individual's right to privacy and the public's right to know -- and then, having drawn the line, how to avoid being pulled across it by cunning manipulators or by the...
Snobbery and exclusion have long been inseparable from golf. Playing even one round requires the use of expensive equipment, access to landscaped acres of greensward and, for most people, expensive lessons in technique. A caddy is a sort of walk-along valet. At private Baltusrol, new members put up $25...
The Justice Department brought suit against V.M.I. 16 months ago, claiming that exclusion of women from the state school was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause. After hearing arguments in April, Judge Kiser, who got his law degree from Washington and Lee University 33 years before it...
But a new image is emerging. In Illinois, California and Florida, children are fighting exclusion from the Boy Scouts based on their being atheist, agnostic or female. An assistant scoutmaster in California is battling an expulsion imposed because he is gay. And Boy Scout officials are rewriting popular mythology, if...