Word: upholder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honest for one semester doesn't seem as daunting. The spring term is thankfully a truncated version of its fall counterpart. It's only three more shopping days and twelve more weeks to the next encounter with reading period. So now is the time to take the plunge and uphold a promise for at least this short segment of the academic year...
...Supreme Court voted, 6-2, to uphold San Jose's 1979 rent control law. At that time, Justice William H. Rehnquist argued that states must be able to regulate "the economic relationship of landlords and tenants...We see no need to reconsider the constitutionality of rent control...
...York Times columnist, has seen the film and believes it does all that and worse. He calls JFK "paranoid and fantastic," full of "wild assertions" and propagating an idea that, "if widely accepted, would be contemptuous of the very constitutional government Mr. Stone's film purports to uphold...
...letter then goes on to say that "Non-Jews needed to be removed from that territory." No respectable version of Zionism advocates the removal of the non-Jews from the land of Israel in order to create a Jewish state. The Israeli Declaration of Independence states that Israel "will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of religion, race or sex." The state of Israel has over 700,000 Muslims and Christians who hold full citizenships...
...ALMOST SURPRISING that such idiotic arguments used to uphold discrimination could persist for 50 years. But in fact they have come to justify even more than segregation--now the military wants complete exclusion. And while the Pentagon pointedly denied its racism during the 1940s, now it openly states its anti-gay sentiment...