Word: warrants
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Sociology is one of 13 departments cited in a 1980-81 Faculty report on affirmative action for having fewer tenured women Faculty members than the available pool of female candidates would warrant...
...hilly miles from Putney in southern Vermont, the proceedings got under way promptly at 9 a.m. The local grange hall has a fitting Puritan homeliness, all hard-edged monotones except for the American flag near the dais. By 11:45 a.m. 17 of the 22 "articles" on the "warrant" had been discussed and voted on. Municipal officials won 500-an-hour raises. A local rescue squad was granted a $2,291 subsidy...
Moderator Frederick Houston, a local lawyer, announced that one more article, placed on the warrant by petition of 5% of Newfane voters, would be deliberated before the lunchtime recess. "It won't take long," said Houston, who then quickly read through item 18, which urged "a mutual freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons, and of missiles and new aircraft designed primarily to deliver nuclear weapons, with verification safeguards satisfactory to both countries...
...sees judges as specially charged, first, with purifying the political process--unblocking "stoppages," in his ling. Legislation that seems to subvert the principle of "one man, one vote" would warrant intense judicial scrutiny; so, for the matter, would government actions that limit political speech or assembly. Ely derives that role directly from the Constitution, which he contends is almost solely "about process"--and includes none of the "substantive values" that judges have sought to find...
...first time on Broadway, Cher proves herself a promising comedienne, but a still aspiring dramatic actress. Altman, however, has engineered the shifts between years with stunning incompetence, while Graczyk, the executive director of the Columbus Players Theater, has overloaded his 5 & Dime with enough junky symbolism to warrant an eviction notice. As each character is stripped of her life-sustaining illusion, it becomes obvious that though the setting is Texas, we are really in Ibsen's Norway. That sound at the end is not applause, but wild ducks flapping overhead, vainly trying to find a play on which they...