Word: upheld
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...Republicans and Democrats were able to set aside traditional politics and pass a tax-reform bill based on the basic principles of fairness, simplicity and efficiency. It appealed to Republicans because it lowered rates, and to Democrats because it eliminated loopholes. Tax reform, in defiance of the odds, upheld the public interest against the special interests...
...enterprise of desegregation coming to nothing as whites move to suburbs that the courts have put beyond the reach of busing orders. Only a third of black students now go to majority-white schools--a higher degree of segregation than existed 26 years ago, when the Supreme Court first upheld mandatory busing. In these circumstances, the N.A.A.C.P.'s. insistence on school integration appears antiquated to many young blacks--a situation that an organization with a median age approaching 50 can ill afford...
...ever since. The defense says that additional cleaning of the rifle and a new test will clarify the situation in favor of Ray. But the prosecution says they are just grasping at straws. If Judge Brown rules against him, it probably means that Ray, whose guilty plea has been upheld eight times by state and federal courts, has seen the end of his last hope for a new trial...
...court was not convinced. Writing for the majority, Clarence Thomas asserted that the Kansas law's standard for what constitutes a dangerous mental illness was as strict as the standards in many laws the court has long upheld. Thomas further concluded that since the Kansas law was a version of these well-established "civil commitment" statutes, Hendricks' confinement could not be considered "punishment"--because punishment, in constitutional terms, arises from criminal proceedings, not civil ones...
...rejection of nearly all efforts to permit it," Rehnquist wrote. "The asserted 'right' to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest..." The Justices also rejected the parallel between the practice and the request of someone on life support to have the plug pulled, a right upheld by the court in the past...