Word: upholds
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...Army helicopters over northern Iraq. An earlier Air Force criminal inquiry brought charges against only one officer, and he was acquitted on all counts. A new report by General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, cites two generals for poor judgment and failure to uphold Air Force standards; five airmen were barred from airborne assignments for at least three years. Twenty-six people died in the 1994 "friendly fire" tragedy, including 15 Americans...
...will uphold the precedents and federaldecisions which have been made," Fried said inJune...
...build on momentum from a recent Supreme Court decision that frowned onracial preferences in awarding federal contracts, the GOP presidential candidate today asked an appellate court to invalidate "various state laws granting racial and gender preferences" to minority- and women-owned companies. Wilson, recognizing that he once swore to uphold the California Constitution when he took office, reasoned as follows: "A public official has legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of laws which he has a duty to enforce...
...Senate bill starkly reveals even the domestic financial hypocrisy of such an argument. The same contingent that passed Gingerich's National Security Revitalization Act, which was supposed to produce a $1 billion budget cut by subtracting that amount from U.S. support of the United Nations, has now voted to uphold spending in our own military that would far surpass this gain in savings. By scapegoating international peacekeeping, the senate justifies SDI. Yet global policing has never cost us a fraction of our national defense initiatives...
Turk campaigned to uphold rent control inCambridge, citing issues of tenants rights. But hesays that Fried opposed him, saying that rentcontrol had been abused and had caused adeterioration in housing and property values...