Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Our design was not to set a precedent [of seniors] but owing to out present circumstances and also owing to the current situation--[Ehrlich] has a great deal of experience working with the administration," said Steven W. Hetts '96, who will serve in an advisory role to the capital campaign...
"I don't have a problem with an alcohol policy, and I don't have a problem with the fact that because it's state law they can't condone drinking, and they are trying to make some sort of precedent," the junior says. "[But breaching medical confidentiality] is the...
"There is absolutely no precedent for memorializing or commemotating Harvard alumni who died as combatants fighting against their own country," said HBLSA president Patience R. Singleton.
Recognizing how absurd and offensive a memorial solely to Confederate soldiers would be, proponents of the idea have now tried to characterize the proposal as one for a memorial to alumni who died during the Civil War. But there is no clear precedent for such a memorial and it would...
Powell is probably correct when he says no overall strategy can ever cover all the choices open to the nation; the government of the day will have to convince the public each time that America must act. Precedent will certainly influence the debate, however. Intervention in Bosnia would help establish...