Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years there has only been one such investigation, and in that case the appeal board sided with Rudolph. If the board conducts a hearing on Rudolph's new scheme it will probably uphold his decision. The only other method of defeating the new traffic plan would be to fire Rudolph. The City Manager--not the City Council--has the power to dismiss him, and he is unlikely...
...world is trying hard to improve not only the image but also the quality of its profession. The Public Relations Society of America is conducting a drive for state accreditation and has drawn up a Code of Professional Standards, pledging its 5,600 members to uphold "generally accepted standards of accuracy, truth and good taste." Everyone knows that such codes are virtually impossible to enforce. A stronger guarantee of good conduct lies in prosperity and self-interest. Large, thriving p.r. firms with top industrial clients hardly find it worthwhile to run shoddy, vulgar campaigns. They certainly do not underestimate...
...bestseller be all bad? Answer: Yes. Irving Wallace (The Man, The Prize, The Chapman Report) runs through several plots in The Plot: the Kennedy assassination, a defrocked diplomat's attempt to prove himself innocent of accusations of treason, an ex-President's struggle to uphold his fading reputation, an exiled party girl's scheme to re-enter her native England, a down-and-out reporter's comeback attempt. By a stretch of imagination no greater than Wallace's, Dwight Eisenhower, Christine Keeler, Alger Hiss and the entire journalistic profession could conceivably sue. But why should...
...local pressures than any other members of the federal bench. Not only is a district judge drawn from his locality; he almost always owes his job to his state's dominant politicians-particularly the U.S. Senators. Chosen by men committed to local interests, he is then sworn to uphold national principles that may conflict with those interests...
...with a Negro high school teacher last year, he was outraged that the police failed to arrest the teacher. When the police and the city manager ignored his demands for an apology, he went on an editorial rampage, denouncing the city fathers along with the police for failing to uphold law and order in Lynchburg...