Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cure for the disease is discovered, but when it is suggested that the same cure be given to poor black youngsters, the public balks. The courts defend the exclusion of Blacks from treatment on the grounds that since the disease itself afflicted whites, the cure could be limited to caucasians on medical and not racial grounds. Such are the limits of the "Equal Protection Clause...
...WJJX controversy was but one in a series of recent events which reflect the tension between students and administration over the treatment of minorities at Michigan, said Bruce Belcher, student general council for the Michigan Student Assembly...
...especially fitting that at the height of the Administration's campaign to package the latest of its failed Supreme Court nominees as a tough crime fighter, the Attorney General's wife, Ursula Meese, wrote to a federal judge urging special treatment for a family friend facing criminal charges. While Meese did not write or necessarily authorize his wife's letter, his failure to condemn it and immediately apologize entangles him in a web of sleaze. Once again, we're left to wonder whether Meese even realizes that something unethical has taken place...
Wolfe's main conceit is that the upper classes are especially vulnerable to prejudicial treatment if they lose their insulation. Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue and Southampton, the leading bond salesman at Pierce & Pierce, learns this harsh lesson when he is arrested for hit-and-run driving and plummets from a "Master of the Universe" to "the Great White Defendant," the dream of every ambitious $36,000-a-year assistant district attorney...
...rush to vagueness characterized the treatment of other issues: ways to incorporate the laity more fully into church life; whether Catholic politicians are bound to apply church teaching to society; and the role of lay activist movements, conservative and liberal. Some observers believe synod discussions have become less spontaneous, partly because of John Paul's concern that the bishops maintain a united front with him on doctrine and discipline, and partly because he sits in on most sessions. On the other hand, it may simply be that the diversity of national interests and viewpoints among the prelates makes strong policy...