Word: voting
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This declaration of moral degeneracy is grounds for enjoining the faculty from teaching undergraduates until the vote is reversed...
Lifting the travel restrictions would require a vote of Congress, which in 1987 added the AIDS virus to a list of "excludable diseases," according to Richard Kenney, a spokesperson for the Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...mandate he might like to have. The right wing in my view is quite strong. I am saying to him that he should act jointly with us in trying to reach a negotiated settlement as speedily as possible. Once a nonracial constitution is introduced, then everybody will have the vote. He will be assured of the vote of the overwhelming majority of South Africans. But if he goes for a mandate for whites alone, he is in danger...
...year after it struck down a Texas law barring flag desecration on the ground that it violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech, the Supreme Court last week threw out a law Congress subsequently passed to circumvent that ruling. The 5-to-4 vote was the same as before: conservative Reagan appointees Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy joined William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun in ruling that even offensive forms of political expression -- in fact, especially those offensive forms -- were what the Constitution was designed to protect. "Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that...
...acting head of the church since the death last month of Patriarch Pimen. Leader of the Kiev diocese since 1966, Filaret is more of a Ukrainian chauvinist than is Vladimir and, according to dissident priest Gleb Yakunin, is seen as "a KGB puppet." He was third in the bishops' vote...