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The Clinton administration clings to the evasion enshrined by Justice Lewis Powell in the Bakke case: "Rigid" numerical quotas are unfair and discriminatory, while "flexible" goals are not.
Unlike the national parks at the peaks of many of the Canary Islands there are no views from here, aside from at Garajonay itself, and an almost perpetual thick mist clings to the ancient, moss-covered trees.
The idea is that Crane clings to scientific principle in the face of the supernatural--he dumbfounds the locals by insisting that the killer is human and appalls them by performing an autopsy on a female victim.
They crowd each other into the roadway, bulge out of tiny auto-rickshaws, and perch on top of buses and trains; a family of four or five clings onto a motor-scooter, and a whole school class on one bullock-cart.
But we may concede that British English, vocabulary, pronunciation, and all, is still in competition with American English and even clings to a limited superiority of prestige.