Word: trammels
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NCAA 100-Yard Backstroke Results: 1. Dave Berkoff, Harvard, 48.20; 2. Jay Mortenson, Stanford, 48.62; 3. Richard Hughes, Princeton, 49:06; 4. Erik Hansen, Iowa St., 49.40; 5 Andy Gill, Texas, 49:42; 6. Glenn Trammel, Kansas, 49:69; 7. Scot Johnson, Arizona...
...prove past discrimination. Indeed, the Justices may in future cases require a showing that employers have persistently flouted court orders to improve their hiring practices. The court did set up some general ground rules for affirmative-action plans: they should be limited in duration and not "unnecessarily trammel" the rights of white workers. They must be carefully tailored to remedy the precise type of discrimination in each case and avoid rigid quotas. Those guidelines leave room for considerable argument in the lower courts, and no doubt affirmative- action plans will continue to be challenged by whites with the backing...
Then things seemed to be changing. The Tigers' farm-grown talent had produced nothing but mediocrity since 1973, but the likes of Alan Trammel, Lou Whitaker, Steve Kemp, Jack Morris and Lance Parrish thrust Detroit's love team near the playoffs. The Lions--guided by the poise of Billy "Silver Streak" Sims, Eric Hipple, Doug English, Al "Bubba" Baker and Freddie Scott--appeared to reach a similar plateau...
Specifically, the court overturned the "Hawkins Rule," a 1958 decision that gave a spouse on trial the right to veto the intention of the other spouse to offer incriminating evidence in court. This latest ruling concerned Otis Trammel Jr., a California man who in 1976 was convicted, partly on the testimony of his wife, of conspiring to import heroin. In the opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger explained that the old notions about married women having no separate legal identity had broken down "chip by chip," and that marriage was not what it used to be. When a spouse is willing...
...also allows spousal testimony only in the case of conversations that were not intended to be private (pillow talk is still protected), or when the husband or wife has actually witnessed criminal acts of the other. Moreover, the high bench is not really breaking new ground with the Trammel decision. Over the past several years, 26 states have gone at least as far as the new federal rule...