Word: outlawed
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...action opponents, Blum said he and other groups would continue to oppose race in admissions, but focus their attention on summer programs and scholarships that are given only to minorities. Other groups, too, may continue to file suits against college affirmative actions programs. Because the decision doesn't completely outlaw affirmative action or permit it in all cases, students are likely to file suit against other colleges, arguing that their affirmative action programs favors race too much and doesn't focus enough on the individual applicant as the Court calls on universities...
...from entering the territory. Riel's knowledge of English, Montreal education, and overall charisma made him a natural leader. Democratically inclined, he organized a provisional government that included the minority English settlers. Yet his efforts would be repeatedly undermined by the Canadian establishment until eventually he became a wanted outlaw...
Iraq may well be found to have stashes of chemical and biological weapons, perhaps even a nuclear program, but the fact that such weapons haven't been used in the field is not insignificant. It cuts into the American story line: that this was a dangerous, outlaw regime ready to go to any lengths to stay in power. Saddam's minions have gone to some lengths--car bombs, false surrenders, using civilians as shields--but these have become the standard ceremonies of terrorism, the coin of the realm in that part of the world. And if no major stashes...
...eyes of much of the world, Sheriff Bush has become an outlaw cowboy. With a posse of American capitalists, Bush wants a bloody shootout and sizable heist that will ruffle petticoats across the global village...
DIED. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, outlaw country singer known equally for his blaring, bad-ass anthems of love and revenge and the real-life troubles behind his surly image; in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been bedridden in a nursing home with asthma and emphysema. Of his dozens of hits on more than 30 albums, PayCheck, born Donald Eugene Lytle (in the '60s he took the name of a boxer KO'd by Joe Louis), was best known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison...