Word: upholding
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Harvard—in a friend-of-the-court brief signed by seven other universities—asked the Supreme Court to uphold the principle of affirmative action in college admissions yesterday...
...Alliance for Justice, a private non-profit advocacy group whose mission for the last 20 years has been to uphold high standards for judicial nominees, has also expressed concern about the nomination...
...custodians’ second grievance—that the university did not uphold seniority rights—concerned full-time openings that should have been offered first to janitors who had worked at Harvard the longest but were instead offered to others, according to Bartley...
...executive board of HRCF wrote in an e-mail to the organization’s members last night that “it is important that our constitution continues to state the necessity that the leaders of HRCF uphold and support the purpose of HRCF...
...Lott was referring to, Thurmond had broken with the Democratic Party over President Truman's expansion of civil rights for black Americans. Thurmond ran for President as the nominee of the States' Rights Party, also known as the Dixiecrats. Its platform was built almost entirely around a pledge to uphold "the segregation of the races and the integrity of each race." Thurmond won 39 electoral votes on his vow that "all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches...