Word: upholding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Summers’ failure to visit even the slightest punishment on Tribe, Summers’ gross failure to uphold intellectual integrity, is further proof—if further proof were needed—that he is not fit to lead Harvard or any university. He should be fired,” as should Kagan, Velvel wrote last April...
...name when she married in 1979, was inspired to do the study in part because her niece, a lawyer, changed hers. "She felt that her generation of women didn't have to do the same things mine did, because of what we had already achieved," Goldin says. "They would uphold all the ideals of gender equality but didn't have to proclaim it with their surname." In other words, women had come far enough that names didn't matter...
According to a press release on Wyden’s website, a 2004 Government Accountability Office report found that many government agencies receiving federal funding to uphold equal treatment of women under Title IX, such as NASA and the National Science Foundation, were not succeeding...
Yale and Columbia officials have said they will uphold a July 2004 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, which stated that teaching assistants at private universities are not to be considered employees under the terms of the National Labor Relations...
...preserving the socialist system. I think we should uphold two things. First, public ownership should always play the dominant role in our economy. Second, we should try to avoid polarization [of rich and poor] and always try to keep to the road of prosperity. Our policy of opening to the outside world, and the new approach introduced at home to stimulate the economy and to take more flexible measures, will not lead to polarization. As long as public ownership plays a dominant role in our country, I think the polarization can be avoided. There will be differences when the different...