Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current recrystallization, Americans are asserting their past, their myths, their freedoms. They think of immigrants and New York Harbor and Ellis Island. But they fetch back, too, to a paler, sweeter image --in Robert Lowell's verse, "Main Street's shingled mansards and square white frames/ date from Warren G. Harding back to Adams./ old life! America's ghostly innocence...
...then Cavell opened the floor up for questions. The other participants were Robert Gardner '48, directer of the Carpenter Center; Alfred F. Guzzetti, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department; Vlada K. Petric, curator of the Harvard Film Archive; screenwriter and film critic William D. Rothman; and Charles Warren '69, lecturer on history and literature...
...says, "we whooped it up a little." Most had already been rehired, but they may now press for back pay. The layoff plan had been necessary, the Jackson board of education had contended, to assure enough minority role models for its minority students. Lewis Powell, joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist plus O'Connor, disagreed. In their view, a minority preference plan could have been justified only by a showing of prior discrimination in the hiring of teachers within the district. "This court never has held that societal discrimination alone is sufficient to justify a racial classification...
...Warren Burger, who wrote both majority opinions, stated in the California case that although residential yards are ordinarily fully covered by the privacy safeguards of the Fourth Amendment, it was unreasonable to expect such protection for activities that are "visible to the naked eye" by police "traveling in the public airways." In the Dow case Burger went further, saying that a factory area was not comparable to a private yard, and that the $22,000 magnifying camera used by the EPA was not in the same league as high- tech snooping devices that might require a search warrant. The majority...
Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson said he was "pleased" with the decision, but his company will have to agree to stringent conditions if the case is transferred. Carbide must accept the jurisdiction of the Indian courts, pay any judgment assessed and abide by the same rules for pretrial disclosure of information that would apply to a civil case being tried in U.S. federal court...