Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They have been waiting for three years in Chicago. There a sergeant's exam, taken in 1985 by 6,000 officers, is under review by a federal judge after discrimination charges by minority candidates. The court has scolded the department for testing in a way that "had a substantial adverse...
ALL this is not to downplay the potential threat that Rowan may have faced, nor to condone the delinquency, arrogance, bad judgment, and lack of respect which the teenager showed towards the Rowan family at 2 a.m. that Tuesday night. It's just to suggest that Rowan, like the rest...
Even if his health had not failed, the President would have faced rapidly escalating political problems. Under the constitution, he cannot run for consecutive five-year terms. His Christian Democratic Party is likely to be rejected in presidential elections scheduled for next March. Three months ago, in local balloting that...
From fire-breathing Huey Long to high-living Edwin Edwards, Louisiana's populist Governors have almost always pushed at the boundaries of executive power. The latest to occupy the mansion, Democrat Charles ("Buddy") Roemer, has quickly stretched those boundaries to all but a breaking point. Since he took over from...
"I would say he found himself in the worst possible situation and handled it in an excellent way," Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School, said after Vorenberg's resignation. "It was one of the biggest problems any dean in American law schools has faced in recent...