Word: agreement
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...have been sent by intelligent beings. Last week, when details of the British findings reached the U.S., the possibility that the pulsations had been artificially produced by an advanced civilization seemed remote. But even if the causes were natural, scientists on both sides of the Atlantic were in firm agreement that discovery of the pulsing signals, named "pulsars" by the British, was one of the major astronomical finds of recent times-perhaps equal in importance to the discovery of the nature of quasars...
...That agreement on platform planks, hammered out in Rockefeller's Manhattan apartment* while the convention roiled in Chicago, was not so offensive to Nixon ideologically as it was politically. In 1964, they tangled again, not so much over principle as over party loyalty. Nixon supported the ticket and worked for it, later attacked Rockefeller as a "divider" and "spoilsport" for doing neither...
...popsy of the industry it is supposed to regulate. Its ultimate power, the license revocation, is rarely invoked. And when it proposes an industry rule, the commission invariably backs down before implementation. In 1963, it recommended a regulation codifying the National Association of Broadcasters' own gentleman's agreement of 18 minutes' maximum ad time per hour on radio, and 16 minutes on TV. But as soon as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee began to rumble about the rule, the FCC withdrew. And last May, the commission approved a license for a Virginia radio station that...
Human Factors. Among lawyers and judges, alimony abolishment is considered obviously too drastic. But there is widespread agreement on one major reform: replacing guilt by need as the operative factor in determining how much an ex-wife should receive...
...University of Wisconsin's Nathan Feinsinger, who serves as a special labor consultant to Governor Warren P. Knowles, has proposed the principle of "voluntaryism," a term he borrowed from George Taylor. "In my judgment," says Feinsinger, "a voluntary agreement not to strike is much more apt to work than a system of fines or imprisonment. This is because a no-strike agreement is the product of negotiations and not imposed from above." Feinsinger would introduce what he calls a "neutral," appointed by both sides, who would audit negotiations as a detached and dispassionate observer, making nonbinding recommendations on request...