Word: assents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revolution-by-Consent. Columnist Max Lerner, whose most recent book was called The Age of Overkill, used the occasion to go far beyond the immediate and practical problem of price. "The State of the Union address," said Lerner in the New York Post, "won our assent because we were wholly ripe for it-and Johnson had helped make us ripe. But it was full of worn and weary phrases. Its key concept of the Great Society has never been thought through, either by Johnson or-as far as we know-by anyone around him. Nothing in the speech, in word...
Dietz asked readers of his ad to attend a public hearing today at which the City Council will decide whether or not to grant the Coop permission to build its bridge. A majority of the Massachusetts legislature and two-thirds of the City Council must give their assent before a private corporation can utilize the air rights above a municipally-owned street...
...British are challenging the claim of hegemony that Nasser hopes to carry to the conference table at the Arab summit meeting next month. Nasser wants the Saudi Arabs to join Jordan in official recognition of Yemen's republican regime, and he clearly thinks he can win such diplomatic assent if further success is achieved, not only in the South Arabia Federation but also among Yemen's disorganized chieftans...
...three minutes, speaking before the Supreme Soviet, Nikita Khrushchev decreed the removal of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev from the presidency of the Soviet Union and won the automatic assent of the 1,443 "worker and peasant" delegates. For Brezhnev, 57, the step down was really a step up. More clearly than ever, Brezhnev (TIME Cover, Feb. 21) is now Khrushchev's heir apparent. Being freed from the mere protocol tasks carried out by the President (formally known as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet), he can now apply himself more vigorously to the job that really counts: helping...
Acronyms are favorite cramming tools. Wicks students use IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) to crack almost any exam question. A whole year's law-school course in contracts is reduced to PACIFIC CAT DID, each letter standing for a critical legal factor-P for parties, A for assent, C for consideration, and so forth. At New York's Practising Law Institute, cases in which a published and mailed notice suffices to get service in a civil suit, are summed up in MINISTER-Matrimonial actions, In rem property actions, Nonresidents, Incompetents and infants, Stockholders, Traveling residents, Extended statute...