Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebration of the prudent and the pragmatic. Caught between students who desire a larger commitment to their particular needs--increased minority admissions, more minority faculty, a Third World center--and a disdainful though reticent group of Harvard citizens who shy away from specters of separatism--this group tends to uphold the idea of meritocracy--Bok must steer a hazardous middle course...
...Reagan, at ease with the implausibilities of fictive film, would have rejected the script as beyond belief. At the approach of high noon, the hero strides to the podium. Gently, the sun tries to break through an overcast sky. With a resounding "So help me God!" he pledges to uphold the Constitution, and then calls for an "era of national renewal." He leaves the platform, with the U.S. Marine Band playing Hail to the Chief, and minutes later a plane half a world away finally lifts off from a Tehran runway, thus ending an ordeal that has sapped the nation...
...first step after hearing from the Supreme Court is to write a brief urging it to uphold the appeals court's decision. He searches for precedents supporting his case, but finds few; his 45-page brief tells how the DEA and the prosecutor tried to pressure Morrison and him. The Government has also filed a brief, which Cucinotta studies before writing his. He scribbles indignant notes in the margins. To the Government's claim that it can control its agents without court interference, Cucinotta quips, "Like Herbert Hoover?" (He means J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director...
...system, not the subject matter. Says School Superintendent Andrews: "I don't know whether Lang is right or wrong about the books. But in a public school system, you have to have reasonable procedures to determine what is to be used, and the superintendent has to uphold them." Montgomery County has approved Aristotle's Poetics only for senior honor students. Asked Andrews: "What if a teacher decided to use Playboy or Hustler? I think the school system has an obligation to set standards and to set curriculum...
...with vagueness: under its provisions, for example, the CRR can judge whether a student has shown "gave disrespect for the dignity of others" and expel him on that subjective basis. The University is far more likely to use the CRR to punish political demonstrators of the future than to uphold human dignity...