Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the court seemingly ignores, however, is the distinction between neutrality and overt bias in favor of one religion. When the city gives free textbooks or transportation, it is part of a value-neutral effort on the part of the government to treat all religions equally. Jewish schools can receive the free textbooks as can non-denominational private schools. But when the city makes an a priori decision to put up a nativity scene, it is specifically singling out for approval one aspect of one religious celebration from a myriad of beliefs and practices...
...apartheid laws that call for confiscation of American assets in time of civil war, which according to apartheid generals is already underway and not something of the "horrible" future: Silvers even implies that Harvard now takes ethics into consideration in its investments and say that pre-1972 policies were neutral or "amoral." Some former members of SASC and other anti-apartheid activists ask Silvers whose side are you on? Henry Park '84 SASC Brad Manl '82 SASC Raun Rasmussen Harvard Law School A.B.L.E. Ibrahim Gassama HLS Third World Coalition Matt Kramer HLS Divestment Committee Muhammed Kenyatta HLS Black Students Association
...will choose more delegates than any other state (345), but its Democrats had assumed there would be no race left by the time they voted in the June 5 primary. Hart's New Hampshire victory changes that. Exults Executive Director of the State Democratic Party Michael Gordon, who is neutral: "Now California has been thrust into prominence...
...freeze is a symbol," he has complained, "not policy." His newish wrinkle on arms control: a joint superpower "communication center" in a neutral country, staffed by U.S. and Soviet officers who would make sure both sides correctly understood each other's military moves...
Western nations can do little to defuse the situation. The U.S., which at first adopted a studiously neutral position, has now tilted slightly in Iraq's favor. Still, says a senior State Department official, "we don't have a lot of leverage." The U.S. is providing Saddam Hussein with indirect economic assistance aimed at helping Iraq build new oil pipelines through Jordan and Saudi Arabia. With Iraqi ports closed to shipping because of the war, the country has been unable to keep oil exports up to the level necessary to finance the conflict...