Word: redresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiasco entered the ninth inning only last week when Fierra finally turned down the proposal, claiming that not enough information had been seen. Lashman promised to seek administrative and, failing that, judicial redress...
...Normally, only a handful of students with such complaints comes to see Walzer each year. But since Helene Sahadi York '83 filed a formal complaint against Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, this winter--and Dean Rosovsky formally reprimanded Kilson--more students have ventured out to seek advice and redress...
...Justice Department stepped forward to try to redress law enforcement wrongs. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti flew to the city and promised that the black community "will get a fair shake and fair play." Justice Department prosecutors promptly convened a federal grand jury to determine if the slain McDuffie's civil rights had been violated. It seems likely that the accused officers will face federal prosecution...
Miami's blacks, who make up about 15% of the city, have long shared the grievances of other urban blacks, but they have won little redress-or even attention -because of the increasing Latinization of greater Miami (the Latin immigrants now represent 37.5%). And though the new violence was not directly connected with the recent influx of Cuban refugees, that influx threatened to put additional pressure on the neglected blacks. But the McDuffie killing was itself a cause of rage. Judge Lenore Nesbitt called it "a time bomb" when she granted a defense request to move the trial...
...World War II the U.S. wisely declined to exact vengeance upon Japan and Germany, but in stead helped to rebuild them, turning them at last, ironically, into the real economic victors of war. In the nuclear era, revenge may be too hairy a form of redress and self-gratification to be endured. Yet a cautionary super-revenge, in the latent form of a cataclysmic threat, is the governing principle of the nuclear age. Revenge, of course, some times achieves an air of respectability, of Realpolitik, if it is called retaliation or, even more innocently, response-as in "nuclear response...