Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sullivan said the plan, under which the committee would pay Harvard $185 per year for each of twelve spaces, would set an "inappropriate precedent" by favoring some city employees over others.
By precedent, The Crimson had been willing to accept any ad that was not libelous, sexist or racist. These are standards imparted by the law, and should be the advertising restrictions in this paper. The Aramco ad is legal according to present federal guidelines and should have run.
When Judge W. Arthur Garrity placed South Boston High School in federal receivership last December, he cited the precedent of a small rural Georgia school system that was taken over by the courts ten years ago, after it tried to circumvent federal desegregation guidelines. But on close inspection, the consequences...
Cancer Risk. Precedent is on their side. Since 1944 the U.S. has honored bilateral agreements to accept airworthiness certificates awarded to foreign aircraft by their governments-as long as the planes meet standards established by the International Convention on Civil Aviation. In recent years, the French and British have accepted...
"When Lee Randolph died, a suicide who had lingered on for weeks, I watched her face being covered by a sheet, and I was ridden by the event. But it was not at all like losing a character in fiction they become more "relevant" and, sometimes, realistic. Today it is...