Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is presently a case pending before the Supreme Court challenging the use of profiles. The Court is expected to uphold the technique. Its previous decisions have sanctioned the informal questioning that profiling is supposed to engender. But the line between coercive and noncoercive questioning is often blurred by law enforcement officers who at best are guilty of zealousness, and at worst racial prejudice...
...true that America is facing a pressing problem due to the pervasive use and abuse of drugs. A priority for law enforcement officials should be stopping the drug traffickers. But the protection of civil rights and the abolition of racial prejudice is essential to our own conception of ourselves as just human beings. To pursue one relentlessly at the cost of the other should not be sanctioned, and a balance must be sought, one that does not include stereotypical profiles which have police with excessive power over our daily lives...
Bradley also lost, 85-2, in an effort to delete some of the benefits from the bill and use the money to boost the maximum earned-income credit, which benefits low-income working families with children, from $875 to $978. Only Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., sided with...
...will have to use more Harvard space while the new center is built. "We will use University rooms--in Phillips Brooks House, for example--and because we are affiliated with the United Ministry, Memorial Church has donated use of the Buttrick Room in its basement," said Rushika J. Fernandopulle '89, president...
...grateful for the cooperation of Memorial Church," Boles said. "We are glad a student organization has the opportunity to use University facilities...