Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While refusing to cede an inch of territory to Iraq, Bush appears willing to allow Soviet reactionaries to get their way in the Baltics. "Self-determination" is well and good, "appeasement" is nasty and bad, but there's a war on, a coalition to uphold and a newfound U.S.-Soviet quasi-alliance to protect...
...such families account for less than 10% of the homeless population, a tiny proportion compared with the homeless who are drug addicts, ex-convicts, alcoholics, single mothers, mostly black and Hispanic. Homeless advocates admit to a well-intentioned whitewash: in their search for support and sympathy, they conspired to uphold the sanitized image of the deserving poor, in fear that if the more complex truth were known, the public would blame the victims and walk away...
This case involves more than just the commendable wish to expose the government's actions. It involves the rights of an accused criminal to a fair trial and the Supreme Court was right to uphold these rights...
...Just Kidding! The good folks at MDC and Harvard want you to know that this year, there will be No Underage Drinking at the Head! There are Laws to Uphold! And an Alcohol Policy! So let's come together for some Good Clean Sober American...
...bill has other flaws the staff position ignores completely. Whether or not one thinks that the proposed capital gains cut will help the economy, the current bill does nothing to index capital-gains taxes to inflation, which is basic to the "fairness" that the staff purports to uphold...