Word: orders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lighter note, the council passed a resolution congratulating the Harvard football team for its 37-20 victory over Yale on Saturday. Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, author of the order, invited all Cambridge citizens "to join in the cheering whether they like Harvard or whether they don't like Harvard...
...Apparently some one or some group that does not want the tree there has taken clandestine action against the tree in order that it should die and we will then have to remove it," the letter said...
...order of things, the feudal inevitabilities, can be changed, with endurance. The Old South was always saying No! in thunder, and Virginia had a gift of eloquent defiance. In 1959, rather than submit to federal court orders to merge their two public school systems (black and white), the supervisors of Prince Edward County closed them down, and then kept them closed for five years. It was an extension of "massive resistance," the last stand of states' rights. The position was argued in high legalisms. But in deeper truth, Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and other leaders of white Virginia were...
...order to qualify as "domestic partners" in New York City, which offers bereavement leave to municipal workers, a couple must officially register their relationship with the city's personnel department, have lived together for one year and attest that they have a "close and committed personal relationship involving shared responsibilities." Thomas F. Coleman, a law professor who directs California's Family Diversity Project, proposes that live-in couples "who have assumed mutual obligation of commitment and support for each other" be allowed to apply for a "certificate of domestic partnership" that would function like a marriage certificate...
...permanent commitment of husband and wife in marriage is intrinsically tied to the procreation and raising of children." Despite the emergence of women in the workplace and changes in the traditional structure of family dependency, it is still necessary for most families to share rights and benefits in order to raise children and remain financially secure...