Word: proceeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: Was the Supreme Court right to let the Jones case proceed...
...simple, easily understood quid pro quo (if Clinton had said, "Kiss it, or you're fired," for example) to the more convoluted cases like those involving a "hostile work environment." Just last month the Supreme Court, usually hostile to gay rights, even allowed same-gender sexual-harassment cases to proceed. So the attitude seems to be, "You can sue for almost anything; but once in court, the bar will be set very high." Courts have settled on this compromise because they know that sexual-harassment cases involve a mountain of individual context. Cases can evolve remarkably once all the evidence...
...trial judge ruled for Maureen, holding that once the sperm and ovum are united--whether "in the private darkness of a Fallopian tube or the public glare of a Petri dish"--a human life has begun and it is the woman's decision whether or not to let it proceed. But the intermediate appellate court took Steven's side, rejecting the notion that the embryos are human life and emphasizing the consent form that both Kasses had signed...
...students were interested in thisissue, so we want to make sure people understandthe decision," she said. "We want to find out howother students want to proceed...
...secret, and Porthos, always ready to be where the action is, rapidly agree to help Athos, D'Artagnan--who still serves the King and feels loyalty towards him--refuses. The three Musketeers, under Aramis' direction and with the approval of the twins' mother, Queen Anne (Anne Parillaud), then proceed to kidnap Phillipe from his dungeon and train him in courtly manners in preparation for his replacing the king during a masked ball. To proceed further in the plot would be to destroy the only compelling reason for seeing the movie, unless you enjoy spending $5-8 per ticket...