Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But Jon C Straight, one of the board's three commissioners, said yesterday the Boston disco's policy "sets a poor precedent. The disco should treat all college students equally."
California's courts have ruled that unmarried cohabitants have the right to bring such an action, and 1,000 or so similar cases have already been filed in the state, including suits by the onetime great and good friends of Rock Star Alice Cooper and Comedian Flip Wilson. Actor...
For many Sinologists, Peking's invasion was another illustration of China's "Great Wall mentality": its obsessive fear of encroachments, real or imagined, against its borders. This siege mentality compelled China to enter the Korean War. It has contributed to periodic flare-ups between Chinese and Soviet troops along the...
TRIBE'S MEMO outlines the various procedural questions a convention might pose and points out that the Constitution does not say where power to resolve them lies. They include whether a state can withdraw its request for a convention, what possible time limit there might be on a state's...
Atkinson contends that precedent as well as federal tax law backs up his case. "Look at any of the big ones-- University of Wisconsin, Stanford, Cal Tech, MIT--as far as I know, they have never been challenged," he said.