Word: severities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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African-Americans should understand that change in American treatment of minorities is possible and has already occurred to a degree, Professor of Law Randall L. Kennedy said yesterday in a speech in Sever Hall...
That recommendation--and the Faculty's decision--is already months late. In 1990, the Faculty Council set an ultimatum: if the ban was not removed by May 1992, Harvard would sever all ties. Period...
That recommendation--and the Faculty's decision--is already months late. In 1990, the Faculty Council set an ultimatum: if the ban was not removed by May 1992, Harvard would sever all ties. Period...
This ought to guarantee a livelihood to untold numbers of lawyers: Thomas Kirk, an Orlando circuit-court judge, says an 11-year-old boy can sue to "divorce" his parents. Kirk ruled that "Gregory K." can seek to sever all legal ties with his natural parents so that he can be adopted by a family with whom he has been living for nine months. Gregory's lawyers claimed that he was abused by his natural parents. Children's rights advocates hailed the novel decision...
...result, Perot threatened to sever all ties with IBM, prompting the company to concede the $28,000 and apologize for any misunderstanding. "Perot then specifically asked for me to return to do business with him, but I refused," says Wilson. "He basically created that crisis and trampled on me to get what he wanted. And I found that totally immoral and unacceptable." As Aubrey Wilson and his colleagues at IBM have apparently learned, it's hard to be a billionaire and a Boy Scout at the same time...