Word: readmit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Ray and his wife Louise informed the school board of their children's condition last fall, the boys were barred from classes. The Rays sued, citing doctors who said the brothers posed no threat. Last month the school was ordered to readmit the boys...
...will be an important victory for AIDS victims, just the second ruling from a U.S. district court that a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped protects people with AIDS. The first came only two weeks ago, when a judge in California ordered the Atascadero school district to readmit Ryan Thomas, 5, who had contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been banned from his kindergarten class after biting another child in a scuffle. While the law in question applies only to federal agencies or recipients of funds from Washington, federal-court rulings often influence the decisions of state courts...
...mishap became a tragedy when the refugees-- kicked out of their adopted country-- were told by their homeland that they were not welcome. The military government of Ghana-- which had sealed its borders to prevent smuggling-- refused at first to readmit the sudden influx of its own citizens. Ghana eventually did relent, setting up "transit camps" to record the masses. But the exodus is still a painful one, as many refugees are starving, and at least one person has already died...
...flexibility. They had made their decision, and they would not rescind it. They yielded to no appeals from any authority. Not even John Quincy Adams (Class of 1787), then a U.S. Representative and two years from the Presidency of the U.S. could convince his friend President Kirkland to readmit Adams' son. Kirkland wrote to Adams, that the decision of the college Government "exhibits the only view of the subject though most unfavorable to them [the students dismissed] that could have been taken." The Government could find no grounds for mitigating his son's punishment, though they wished to meet...
...director of the NCAA, said that re-admission is never permanent, and "open only to institutions who show they can meet the requirements after time." Unless schools prove they are moving toward programs comparable to those of Division 1-A member institutions, it is unlikely that the members will readmit them, Two said...