Word: accordance
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...never charged with obstructing a Harvard official. Rather the catch-all charge of "actively participating in an obstructive demonstration" was brought against him. This was in accord with one of the CRR's ground-rules for dealing with the massive picket lines last May; it declared that everyone who could be identified as present on the day of an obstructive demonstration was guilty of "actively participating" in the obstruction even though the obstruction may, in fact, have taken place later or earlier. (One student was punished for briefly standing on the picket line as he talked to a friend...
...table in an 18th century Baroque palace. Each man in turn signed a document. Then the trio toasted the occasion in Moët & Chandon champagne-as well they might. Credit Lyonnais of France, Commerzbank of Germany and Banco di Roma of Italy had just joined in a unique accord that one executive described as having "all the advantages of a merger without its inconveniences." The signing brought into being a financial powerhouse with $18 billion in deposits, 3,000 branches and 60,000 employees, making it the largest banking operation in Europe and the fourth largest in the world...
...legal documents protect them. West Germany's constitution prohibits the extradition of its own citizens. The 1954 accord between the Allies and Bonn prohibits the retrial in Germany of a war criminal if he has already been convicted in a French, British or U.S. court. That provision was designed to prevent lenient German judges from retrying war criminals after Allied courts had convicted them, and giving them lighter sentences. Ironically, the provision has served to protect those who were tried in absentia in Allied courts but then surfaced after 1955, when West Germany regained its sovereignty. As a result...
...institution in 1956, has made notable improvements. When he took over, there were seven doctors for 3,000 patients; now the ratio is 30 to 1,688, with 1,070 other employees, a ratio recommended by the American Psychiatric Association. Today, 54% of the patients come of their own accord; 15 years ago, only 10% did so, and the average stay has been reduced from three years to less than twelve months...
...Rocha's dialectical construction tells us the precise nature of their relationship. As elsewhere, dialectic shows itself to be the best way of understanding events, of laying them open to us. The central fact about this film, the root of its success, is that its method is perfectly in accord with our understanding: dialectic may or may not be the way material reality functions, but it's certainly the way our conscious reasoning and our dramatic imagination work...