Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study based upon the race of the victim. Among Black offenders in Texas, for example, those whose victims were white were 87 times more likely to receive a death sentence than those whose victims were Black. From all this, according to Bowers and Pierce, emerges "a single underlying racist tenet: that white lives are worth more than Black lives...
...faceless forces. Said Grunwald: "We at TIME have always sided with the former school. In that spirit, TIME started out by putting a person on its cover every week, and the mainstay of that cover is still people." Grunwald called the Distinguished Speakers Program a "logical extension" of this tenet, one that would put TIME cover subjects "in direct touch with the public whose lives they have affected, and especially in touch with young people." The addresses will be given twice a year at colleges or universities picked by the speakers, who will be drawn from the worlds of politics...
...programming. But now, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he can do something about it. Indeed, Fowler's goal is to free broadcasters from nearly all of the thousands of FCC rules, policies and doctrines requiring that "the public interest be served." He rejects the fundamental FCC tenet that broadcasters must demonstrate social responsibility in exchange for using the public air waves. "Television," asserts the man in charge of regulating the nation's 1,090 TV stations, "is just another appliance. It's a toaster with pictures...
...felt the Resolution gave to much leeway to the President--that in fact it confirmed a loss of Congressional military and war power that had been only tacit until then. These objections can safely be dismissed, however, since the compromise struck in '73 rested on a fundamental tenet still in operation today--the nature of modern conflict precludes full use of Constitutional provisions concerning...
...central tenet of Christianity that sinful humans must be reconciled ("justified") with a righteous God to be saved. In traditional Catholic doctrine, the reception of the sacraments and the performance of good works can assist the process of salvation. Martin Luther, the German priest who broke with Rome and initiated the Reformation when he nailed his theses to a church door in Wittenberg, argued that people were saved by God's grace through faith alone. He cited St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 5: 1: "Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with...