Word: rescinding
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Officials showed no signs of reconsideration or 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...
...unclear whether any other state will vote on, much less pass, the amendment before the June 30 deadline. Only 35 of the needed 38 states have approved it so far, and five of these have tried to rescind their votes. ERA activists continue the fight, most strongly in Florida, Missouri and Illinois. In the latter state, supporters hope to force a rules change that would require only a simple majority rather than a three-fifths vote of the state legislature to approve a constitutional amendment. Pro-ERA forces waged a vigorous campaign in Oklahoma, where the amendment was thought...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, was picked last week by the National Organization for Women to head a legal team that will appeal a lower court ruling that allows states to rescind their votes in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment and finds unconstitutional the congressional extension of the dead-line for ratification of the proposed amendment. In a legal matter closer to home, Tribe will represent Grendel's Den, a Cambridge restaurant, before the Supreme Court in the final step of the restaurant's ten-year battle to obtain a liquor license. Under a Massachusetts statute giving...
...word rescind is a concept from the time of the Inquisition. Our forefathers went to 'the stake' rather than rescind their faith. We are not going to the stake...
...bear on the aggressors to give up their territorial spoils. This time around, it looked as if nothing similar could be achieved. The U.S. joined in a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution that declared the Israeli action to be "null and void" and demanded that Begin's government rescind its legislation. The resolution was not expected to have any effect, but the Council will take up the matter again no later than Jan. 5, at which time a Syrian push for more definite sanctions is likely. Most observers feel that the U.S. is unlikely to support such specific measures...