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...free the President's hands, the Administration's new program would, in effect, make the Tariff Commission a mere fact-finding body. The commission's findings would not bind the President in any way, and he would not be accountable to anyone for the use he makes of the information given him by the commission...
Duty Is to Pray. A monk is a cleric who takes vows of religion that bind him to live and serve in one monastic community until his death. Unlike Franciscan or Dominican houses, which are organized into tightly run provinces, Benedictine monasteries are almost completely independent of each other; a monk obeys only his own abbot. Unlike the Jesuits or other modern religious congregations, which have specific vocations to preach, heal or teach, monks are essentially contemplative: their major duty is the Opus Dei-the common recitation of the prayers in the Divine Office, for the glory...
...lawyers were sure that peppery Lee Loevinger, chief of Justice's Antitrust Division, had initiated the new action in reprisal for G.E.'s refusal to sign a consent decree under which the company would bind itself not to charge "unreasonably low" prices that might tend to harm competitors. Another theory was that Loevinger was worried by the vagueness of the proposed consent decree, which might make it legally untenable...
...bind is simultaneously emphasized and intensified social disadvantages which scientists suffer. Theories of America make better dinner talk than theories of protein structure. While scientific students are confronted by revealed fact in their courses graduate can often say new and significant things about historical problem...
...AFRICA. In the newly independent states of Africa, the ruling political spirit is extreme nationalism with often vicious or childish anti-Western overtones, but this does not necessarily mean that these new countries are going Communist. Moscow may find it difficult to bind this willful, unpredictable force to a Soviet-made troika, even in the cases of such left-leaning states as Ghana, Guinea and Mali, which sent "observers" to the Communist Party Congress. Nigeria, the most stable former colony south of the Sahara, and the Brazzaville group of twelve former French territories are especially suspicious of Red intentions...