Word: branched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer thus is to fuse the whole Executive more closely with the Legislative branch. This could be done, for example, by having a President elected as at present and three or four Vice-Presidents--all members of and nominated by the Congress, in a "cabinet" that would assume collective responsibility for actions. The idea is simply to make both activist branches of government work together and assume responsibility instead of having them perpectually working at cross-purposes so that the country drifts vaguely in the direction of the stronger...
Eventually the bus passed by the Law School, Lesley College ("This is where you'd send your daughter if you wanted her to be a teacher."), and reached the Agassiz Museum. "Here are the world famous glass flowers. Don't back in any further than the big branch, I'd rather stick out a little bit than bust another branch. Take the center path and ride the elevator to the glass flowers, third floor...
...effort. But they should not have to, said the court. It is the school boards, not the students, who are "clearly charged with the affirmative duty to take whatever steps might be necessary to convert to a unitary system in which racial discrimination would be eliminated root and branch." Unless a freedom-of-choice plan achieves that goal, it is unacceptable...
Some critics have called for state control of polls, or outlawing them altogether, but that would probably amount to unconstitutional censorship of what has become a lively branch of journalism. Polls are here to stay, and pollsters have an obligation to make them even more honest and accurate. Gallup, Roper, Crossley, Mervin Field, Joe Belden and others have begun a drive for self-regulation, calling on their colleagues to disclose exactly what question was put to how many people, as well as when and where...
...officers of the Student's International Meditation Society, which is Maharishi's subsidiary for the spread of his ideas in universities, the "dropouts" officially don't exist. Spokesmen like Jerry Jarvis, head of SIMS's American branch, soothe their eager audiences with repeated assurances that meditation works for everyone, that nothing can go seriously wrong. In fact, every novice must attend lectures given on the three consecutive nights after his initiation, which supposedly are "advance instruction," allowing one to "refine" his technique. In fact, these "lectures" were question-and-answer periods, and gave me my first feelings of uneasiness about...