Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ensure harmony between HUCTW and Harvard is counterintuitive: the worker who opposes the union shouldn't care, and the union doesn't need advice on this matter from those who are not sympathetic to its very existence. Every club, from the Boy Scouts to the Democratic Party, has a rule for making internal decisions: each member, one vote. To stray from that rule would be organizational suicide...
...took his version of perestroika to Moscow last year with the possibility in mind of putting his marble-and-onyx stamp on Red Square. Glasnost or no, he found the city fathers tougher than Mayor Ed Koch, who calls the real estate mogul "piggy, piggy, piggy" but lets him rule huge swaths of the city anyway. "The system there is so different," Trump said. "I didn't find the incentive to build as far as my time and money were concerned...
...Pittsburgh dispute invites the high bench to revisit one of its most controversial and opaque rulings. In a 1984 case from Pawtucket, R.I., the Justices upheld the constitutionality of a town-supported creche in a display that included reindeer, Santa's house and candy-striped poles, saying the overall tableau had a "secular purpose" and "effect." Ever since, lower courts have struggled to apply what has come to be ridiculed as the "reindeer rule." At issue: how much secular camouflage is required to sneak a publicly sponsored Nativity scene past the First Amendment bar on an "establishment of religion...
...court will rule in the Pittsburgh case is a matter of great speculation, but both sides hope for something clearer than the 1984 decision. Otherwise, the legitimacy of every municipal creche will have to continue being evaluated on its own peculiar merits -- or the quantity of its reindeer, which leaves jurisprudence on the horns of a dilemma...
...Revisiting the "reindeer rule" for the holidays...