Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Committee member Sara M. Berman called the amendment "a great step backwards" yesterday, adding that it would allow "only those who can finance busing on their own to uphold...
Confident the court will uphold his takeover, King now is doing little to develop contingency plans. "We are on hold like everything else," Gerard Morris, King's press secretary, said yesterday...
...least one team continues to uphold the local tradition of ineptitude. And luckily for Harvard, that is the Penn football team. Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania and rumour has it around here that the last time the Quakers had a winning season Old Ben himself led the cheering. The Penn seniors who have played for three years have won three games and lost...
...private lawyers handling most of the cases for Nixon are Herbert Jack Miller, 56, and R. Stan Mortenson, 35. They charge their famous client up to $225 an hour, not unusual for accomplished legal help. Mortenson warns that if the Supreme Court fails to uphold the former President's position in Halperin, any President could be "fair game" in the future. Jimmy Carter, for example, could be sued by any Olympic athlete claiming his career had been blighted. That legal logic does not impress Bruce Ennis, the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Halperin...
...They were also concerned about increasing signs of Islamic fanaticism; a rally in Konya earlier this month that attracted 70,000 people struck them as a threat to Atatürk's concept of a secular society, which the Turkish military is pledged under the existing constitution to uphold. The generals reportedly gave the politicians a final warning on Aug. 29 in an effort to get them to accept Prime Minister Demirel's plan for early elections as a way out of the parliamentary deadlock. When the parties failed to reach an agreement, the generals decided they could...