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...refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good:. . . "he has dissolved, Representative houses [& repeatedly continually], for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people...
...incomes policy. In the long run, I would like to think that unions and employers would themselves work out a policy for pay and incomes so that the government need not step in, that each would recognize what they can take out of the kitty. I think this common assent has been the great success of the German economy...
...Healey originally proposed, it is considerably tighter than the policy now in effect, which holds pay boosts to assent. When the ?6 limit took effect last summer, British prices were rising at a blistering annual rate of 25%; now the pace has slowed to 12%. The government hopes to halve the inflation rate again by next year...
...feel that this increasingly liberal attitude toward abortion indicates a dangerous lack of concern for human life, and cannot condone the use of general funds, with the implicit moral assent involved, for this purpose. Kathryn E. Donovan '77 Constance Mitchell '76 Leslie J. Olin...
...Rules. The spirit of reform also swept through the Senate, where liberal Democrats and Republicans curbed the filibuster. Under the new rules, the Senate can limit debate if 60 of its 100 members vote aye. In the past, two-thirds of all those present and voting had to assent to cloture. Last year no major legislation was talked to death on the floor. Nor did the reformers stop with these important changes. Both the Senate and the House voted to open key committee and conference meetings-heretofore held in private-to press and public...