Word: warrant
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Even at Harvard, many feel that the experience of ethnic groups in this country isn't significant enough to warrant careful study, and instead ought to be tacked onto broader surveys. Ethnic studies refutes this assumption by its output, helping forge a more accurate picture of "America" in the process. It completes the big picture, rigorously studying issues if exclusion and responses to such exclusion that are at the heart of America's most excruciating problems...
Would you permit the police to search your home, at will and without a warrant, if doing so would reduce crime? Defying his liberal constituency, Bill Clinton says if you're one of the 3 million mostly poor and mostly black Americans living in the nation's 17,491 public housing projects, you would -- and you should. Acting on that conviction, the President is urging local housing agencies to rewrite their leases so residents can allow cops to do just that...
...Bosnia is not a vital enough interest to warrant American intervention (as I believe), then we should stay out. The pretend intervention of putting ourselves under U.N. command leaves us with the worst of both worlds: devoid of initiative, yet committed to spasmodic engagement whenever the U.N. rouses itself to action...
When asked, he said that he often gets requests to make a house call in the dressing room of a performer, but he rarely does this, because of the lack of resources and equipment available in such a setting. "It would take the direst of circumstances," he says, to warrant such a visit...
Determinedly immersed in domestic issues, the White House frequently displays a don't-bother-me attitude toward foreign affairs. Clinton was not even aware that the U.N. had decided to issue what amounted to a warrant for Aidid's arrest, for example. And the President, says a Washington official, "doesn't have any instinct about what plays abroad." Relations between the U.S. and India are normally prickly, but there was no need to irritate them further by letting more than a year go by without sending a U.S. ambassador to New Delhi (even now the expected choice, Under Secretary...