Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urge the City Council to reconsider its decision not to fund the Polednak appeal. We urge city councilors to uphold the rule of law when it comes up on Feb. 22nd. We urge the Council to uphold its policy of protecting tenants from eviction for condominium conversion...
...wrote to a Senate committee and demonstrated that the court was neither overburdened nor behind in its work. At the same time that Hughes defended his court, however, it began to shift its position. As usual, the Justices admitted no change, but a series of decisions now began to uphold key New Deal legislation, notably Social Security and the Wagner Act. Friends urged Roosevelt to accept his victory gracefully by dropping the court-packing bill, but the President had committed too much personal pride to the struggle. After months of rancorous debate, which dominated the politics of 1937, the Senate...
...finally recommend to the full Faculty that this sick dog of an organization at last be put out of its misery. And as for students, the CRR boycott is a proud--and effective--legacy of the years of political activism at Harvard and one that today's students should uphold...
...doing "old friend" Tomotso Takese a favor by setting up the interview and did not want to offend the Japanese visitors by refusing the thousand dollars. But Allen should have remembered that the "gift" violated American standards of ethics, the standards a high White House official is obliged to uphold. His entire career, in fact, has displayed a personal moral code highly inappropriate for a man in his position. Because of this continued record of memory lapses, mistakes, and most importantly, questionable morality on Allen's part, President Reagan should turn Richard Allen's administrative leave into a permanent firing...
...city of Cambridge owes the Harvard Community Health Plan $600,000 in return for taxes because of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's recent decision to uphold tax exemption for the plan's $700,000 property...