Word: redressing
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...recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness of this double understanding in these novels is in the way real people can be assigned cheaply torrid love lives with little chance of legal redress...
...inherent right to be admitted to medical school ahead of a less qualified minority member. Nobody has a basic right to a medical education. But the university does have a right to determine its own admissions policy based on many factors, including intelligence, reduction of racial tension and redress of historical inequities. Whites and blacks are owed respect and consideration, but "the right to be treated as an equal" does not always mean "the right to equal treatment." It does always mean, however, that competing interests will be considered in the decision-making process...
Drawing conclusions about the court's past term is not easy. The Justices' drift tends to be rightward, favoring property rights and turning cautious in providing redress for the poor. The court generally opposes judicial activism, favoring legislative settlement of conflicts. This year, at least, it has made no real landmark decisions, and law professors tend to judge it harshly. "The court is without leadership." says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. "It's run by a five-man center" (Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell and Stevens). The University of Virginia's A.E. Dick Howard...
...essentially one of financial injustice. Mather has no squash courts; it is a long walk from the Square; its rooms are uncomfortably small; its charm is limited if not nonexistent. Now it serves no decent breakfast. Separate it is. Equal it is not. I would appreciate some form of redress. Marc A. Rosenblatt...
...guidelines for appointment" are notable for their exceptions to the task force belief that teaching ability should really be an important criterion in the appointment process. For instance, the report says that departments may still go ahead and appoint "minimally competent teachers," if they promise to somehow redress imbalances at a later date...