Word: overturn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordinary circumstances, courts are extremely reluctant to overturn a disciplinary decision from a University," said Roderick MacLeish Jr, a Boston lawyer who has advised 12 College students on cases before the administrative board...
...plan. But I feel like I packed more into a year that many of my classmates did, just because I figured out my path as I went along. I survived, and this fall I'm blustering right back in through the gates and looking for new rocks to overturn...
When he began public life, though, Milk was a preposterous figure--an "avowed homosexual," in the embarrassed language of the time, who was running for office. In the 1970s, many psychiatrists still called homosexuality a mental illness. In one entirely routine case, the Supreme Court refused in 1978 to overturn the prison sentence of a man convicted solely of having sex with another consenting man. A year before, it had let stand the firing of a stellar Tacoma, Wash., teacher who made the mistake of telling the truth when his principal asked if he was homosexual. No real national...
...accordance with Phase 1 of the Guidelines,Berkowitz then met with his department head,Williams Professor of history and PoliticalScience Roderick MacFarquhar, who said he was notin a position to overturn a decision of thePresident...
...passive, TV-watching mode. And call me a traditionalist, but I think e-mail belongs on a PC in the office, not on the big screen in the living room. By law I still can't get local programming on the satellite dish, although Congress is expected to overturn that ban, possibly at the end of June. What I will never get via satellite is my neighbor's vibra-chair...