Word: review
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refusal of the Supreme Court to review an important affirmative action case, while perhaps not actually raising new questions on the controversial issue, has certainly not answered any either...
...committed enough infractions to merit grounding months ago. A number of FAA inspectors told TIME they sent regional offices and headquarters critical reports that were ignored. There is talk of a criminal investigation. And though the agency was concerned enough about ValuJet earlier this year to run a special review, it was not till after the crash--and a stepped-up, 30-day inspection revealing that planes repeatedly flew with known defects and the airline employed unqualified mechanics--that ValuJet planes were towed back to their hangars...
Relief came last week in a landmark ruling that firmly extends the umbrella of the First Amendment over cyberspace. A panel of three federal judges, specially convened in Philadelphia to review the new law, pronounced the government's attempt to regulate online content more closely than print or broadcast media "unconstitutional on its face" and "profoundly repugnant." The Justice Department was enjoined from not only enforcing the act but even investigating alleged malfeasance, at least...
...legal battle is not over yet. The Department of Justice has 20 days to decide whether to ask the Supreme Court to review the case. While a Justice Department spokesman was noncommittal last week, lawyers for the government said from the outset that they would appeal an adverse decision to the highest court. Which is where proponents of the CDA say the case belongs. "We wrote this law based on previous Supreme Court decisions that have a lot of merit, so it will be looked on very carefully," says Senator J. James Exon, who introduced the original bill and believes...
...found Johanna Mcgeary's review of Karen Armstrong's Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths [BOOKS, June 3] enlightening and logical in spite of the "never-ending" religious family feud in that city. Armstrong, in her history of Jerusalem, rightly says true holiness never triumphed in the Holy City. The best solution to the dispute over which religion shall reign is a three-seat throne overseen by NATO. In addition to monitoring the government, NATO could provide peacekeeping troops that would be charged with guarding the ruins of the Temple, just in case soldiers of one religion tried to rebuild...