Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In fact, the administration is committed to making sure that Advanced Standing affects as few non-academic aspects of your life as possible. And since there is precedent for almost anything you might want to do with Advanced Standing, It's really just a question of reaching out to the...
Thanks to Clinton we have two other problems: having to explain to the kids over Cheerios not the significance of a visit to Cuba by the most famous celibate in the world but just why it is that a perky anchorperson is talking about something called oral sex. The second...
Americans trying to get their bearings thought of Richard Nixon and traced his descent from the charge of obstructing justice to the threat of impeachment, and then to the morning of his maudlin-defiant resignation. Or, imagining a precedent for the origins of the current mess, they went back to...
That sounds sensible enough for a party with a pro-life plank in its platform, but G.O.P. leaders are worried that the resolution would set a precedent for imposing litmus tests on its candidates. It would be especially damaging to the G.O.P. in the Northeast, where pro-choicers like New...
In the 1995 case Kyles v. Whitley, the Supreme Court blasted Connick's office for its failure to disclose evidence favorable to a defendant during a murder trial. Such evidence, called "Brady material" after a precedent-setting case, is supposed to be turned over to ensure a fair trial, based...