Word: accession
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...convert's passion -- in part, he says, because it represented a culture "on the cusp," not in the mainstream but on the periphery. The experiences and insights of Yiddish literature, Lansky felt, should not be lost. "As native speakers pass on," he says, "the books become the sole access to the last thousand years of Jewish history...
Along about February the annual exodus begins in earnest. Once the cold season takes hold, planes stop making regular flights to inland stations, and the ice layer spreads out to sea, making access by ship nearly impossible. Only a few hundred residents stay through the winter...
...providing services to businesses. The Louisville public library, for example, has its own patent collection. A dozen facilities around the country advise small firms on how to win federal contracts. Last July the Los Angeles Public Library introduced FYI, a fee-based research and document-service that gives businesses access to 1,500 on-line data bases and a national library network. Once the desired information is located, researchers fax or hand-deliver it right to a client's desk...
Westside authorities turned down Mergens because they felt that giving the club access to school facilities would violate their policy against "advocacy groups" and might amount to an improper endorsement of the club's religion. But Mergens and her fellow club members countered in a suit that the refusal violated the 1984 federal Equal Access Act. That measure forbids public secondary schools to discriminate against any student group on the basis of its "religious, political ((or)) philosophical" views, if -- and this is an important if -- those same schools permit other "noncurriculum-related student groups" to meet on their premises during...
...Supreme Court has already upheld the principle of equal access at public colleges, and most court watchers believe the high bench will extend it to public high schools. Critics fear that equal access could make it easy for majority prayer groups to dominate the public school environment and create an uncomfortable atmosphere for religious minority students. "The theory is that secondary school students are more impressionable," explains American University law professor Herman Schwartz. Douglas Veith, one of Mergens' attorneys, disagrees. "You can't solve a free-speech issue by suppressing prayer," he says. "Students of all faiths and beliefs should...