Word: good-faith
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...busing. Rather, it was a declaration that the existence of single-race schools did not necessarily amount to incontestable evidence of continued racial discrimination. The Justices emphasized that before a federal busing order could be lifted, schools must first convince courts that they have met the test of good-faith compliance and have erased all traces of past discrimination owing to segregated schooling. "This is a fairly high standard," said Janell Byrd, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "School systems that have been discriminating for 65 years are not likely to easily prove that 10 years...
Once I met someone who claimed she did the deed herself. Pressing her further, however, she conceded that she didn't actually succeed in finding a sleeping cow to tip, but that had gone out with some "friends" in a good-faith effort to do so. (Not incidentally, the "friends" swore they had done it before...
While the city cannot legally restrict access to rent-controlled housing, Anthony said that landlords should make a good-faith effort to rent to people who cannot afford to pay market rents...
...again trying to portray the Democrats as the high-tax party, by euchring them into proposing an increase that he could either virtuously reject or pretend had been rammed down his throat as the price for shrinking the deficit. "Now I wonder if this ((summit invitation)) is a good-faith effort or whether political traps are being set," said House Budget Committee chairman Leon Panetta...
...very dissappointed with the recommendations of the chairman," says John Natale, a SPOA representative. "This is not, in our opinion, a good-faith recommendation...