Word: upheld
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Wisconsin had protested the start of the first race, claiming that the official had issued improper, confusing signals at the starting line. The head referee upheld the protest immediately after the race and ordered a re-row, but this Wednesday the officials decided to award Washington the victory on the basis of the first race...
...considered the right to have treatment withdrawn. Nearly all have come down on the side of privacy and limited the power of the government to dictate medical care. In a peculiar legal irony, many states make it illegal to assist in suicide; yet again and again, the courts have upheld the rights of conscious but paralyzed patients to have their ventilators and feeding tubes disconnected. In the most recent, highly publicized case, quadriplegic Larry James McAfee, still paralyzed five years after a motorcycle accident, petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow him to disconnect his own ventilator using a special...
Arguments, no matter how logical, are unlikely to ease the Germanophobia that still afflicts Europe. But such anxieties are fortunately not driving the governments of East and West in the wrong direction. They are not trying to stop the movement toward unification. All have formally upheld the German right to self-determination and have pushed to the back of their minds the dark shadows of two world wars. They have promised to unite what they hope will be a new Germany. One way to make certain that the result is a European Germany will be for the Europeans to complete...
...message behind the federal court decision that last week struck down Arizona's official English law. The measure, which was narrowly approved as a state constitutional amendment two years ago, required state and local governments to conduct their business in English. Although a state court had earlier upheld the provision, federal district Judge Paul Rosenblatt concluded that the law violated First Amendment guarantees. He ruled that the law forced government officials and employees "to curtail their free-speech rights" by impermissibly tying their tongues in their dealings with non-English-speaking constituents. Arizona Governor Rose Mofford, who criticized...
Even though the U.S. Senate last week upheld President Bush's veto of a bill allowing Chinese students to prolong their stays in this country, many of the students here say they are not overly concerned that they will be deported...