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Beth Israel Hospital, a Harvard teaching affiliate, is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that the hospital could not ban pro-union solicitation in its cafeteria...
...addition, organizations such as the National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision (NCOBD) have accused U.C. Davis of colluding with Bakke and the California courts, with the ultimate purpose of losing the case...
Adams' ruling also faces attack in Congress, which in 1974 gave itself the right to veto any such decisions by the Transportation Department within 60 days. The Secretary had barely made his announcement when Bud Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican, introduced a resolution in the House to overturn the decision. He cited, among other things, the bags' cost. Detroit automen have estimated that a reliable bag system would add $200 to $300 to the price of a car; the Government's figure is about half that. Indications are, however, that Congress will go along with the ruling...
Good Judgment. What aroused cautious, conservative Japanese voters to overturn two decades of L.D.P. rule, was outrage over the "rokkiido" (Lockheed) scandal, plus concern over inflation (9.7%), pollution and soaring medical, housing and utility costs. Miki's decision to play a reformer's role and expose his own party's involvement in the Lockheed case was not sufficient to save the L.D.P. Confessed Miki, as he watched the votes pour in on television: "I can't help admiring the Japanese people for showing such good judgment...
...RACIAL discrimination complaint is hardly the only turf on which Brown-Beasley is waging his fight. Indeed his full-time battle to overturn his dismissal--marked by at times daily distribution of accusatory, informational or questioning letters to members of the administration--has generated additional disputes that have helped stalemate his appeal proceeding. One of the less substantive disagreements, the mini-war of nerves over Harvard's non-recognition of Brown-Beasley's student nominee to the appeal panel, suggests not only the degree of legalism in Brown-Beasley's appeal efforts but also his overwhelming suspicion of Harvard...