Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After nearly a decade of on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand rulings, last week's decision provides the clearest declaration yet on the role of affirmative action as a remedy for inequality in the American workplace. For the first time the Supreme Court explicitly ruled that women as well as blacks and other minorities can receive preferential treatment. Even more significantly, the decision endorsed a voluntary affirmative-action plan in a situation where there was no proven history of discrimination; all that was necessary, wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority, was evidence of a "manifest imbalance...
...errant man of God has long been the butt of barroom jokes, a straying sheep of American novels (The Scarlet Letter, Elmer Gantry) and even of TV movies. Much like fictional characters, the gospel telecasters in the current imbroglio emerged during the week as role players in their own real-life soap opera. Among the participants and events...
Seated at a table before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his hands clasped tightly, the diminutive State Department legal adviser, Abraham Sofaer, hardly looked the role of enfant terrible. But after being praised publicly by Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, Sofaer last week stared straight ahead as Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts delivered a harsher verdict: "You may say the President hasn't created a constitutional crisis . . . maybe you have. Maybe your memorandum...
...only because in arguing the ABM case he has raised an unprecedented challenge to the Senate. Sofaer has claimed that nothing the Administration tells the Senate during the & ratification process is binding, a view that Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School says "would give the Senate a meaningless role in treaty ratification." When Biden sputtered, "That's incredible. That's absolutely staggering," Sofaer mumbled, "I'd like to talk to you about that." Thundered Biden: "We will...
...many questions as they answered. Which forms of affirmative action are legal? When are they mandatory? Are quotas ever permissible? Required? Even though the Supreme Court will continue to refine the boundaries of affirmative action through a case-by-case approach, the Johnson decision has helped clear up the role that various remedies can play...