Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, should not "think of himself as some great big philosopher-king." He believes that social and economic issues should be left to legislators, even when they handle them poorly. He once derided a Connecticut anticontraceptive statute as an "uncommonly silly law"-and at the same time voted to uphold it. To some, this restraint betokened a lack of drive or leadership. Says one law professor: He was a real disappointment. He was a responder. Adds Dennis Hutchinson, a professor at Georgetown Law Center, "He didn't have a hell of a lot of influence on his brethren...
...heritage of Harvard is its greatest strength, but also one of its mightiest flaws. The past year has shown once more that the University can use the resource of its great past in two ways--to uphold the values that should always exist here, or to nourish the forces of reaction and conservatism that have sometimes triumphed...
...press through a plan called the New World Information Order. By the time they ended their two-day session, the conferees had issued a toughly worded Declaration of Talloires. While pledging "cooperation in all genuine efforts to expand the free flow of information," they promised "concerted action" to uphold the "basic human right" of press freedom and called on UNESCO "to abandon attempts to regulate news content and formulate rules for the press...
...political explosion by renewing orthodoxy. The Jewish Socialist Bund--"We're the young brigade of the proletariat," the children chant--stands at the fore of the trade union movement. There are labor Zionists on the left and revisionist Zionists on the right. Opposed to the Zionists are those who uphold the values of the Diaspora--the Jewish dispersion--and promote the cause of civil and political minority rights, supposedly enshrined by the Treaty of Versailles. Unified by tradition, the Jews were divided by geography, class and vision...
...Rook of the Daily Express complimented Diana "for putting on a bold, beautiful front, and for turning her cold, bare shoulders on the traditional, covered-up royal evening dress." Added Rook: "Her Gone With the Wind dress is high, young fashion. It takes courage, and a lot more, to uphold it. And sitting through an evening in that tight, boned bodice takes guts, because, unless you stay upright and regal, the bones stick like fish knives into your midriff. All Di must learn to watch, which the TV cameras noticed, is the ounce or two of puppy fat which boned...