Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impression is that many of those people signing the petition condemning Harvard students' breach of decorum during the visit of Secretary McNamara are doing so on grounds of etiquette and ignoring the more basic political issues. Justifications for extremist behavior, even of the mild sort witnessed at Harvard, are often very difficult to understand from the standpoint of an established society or an established policy. For people sincerely opposed to the war in Vietnam on reasoned grounds, I see three justifications for the treatment accorded McNamara...
...widely spaced intervals, would be easier to track than ICBMs and could be delivered at best in hardly less time than the 30 minutes needed for an ICBM. Even so, this detente is subject to constant strain; each nation has made clear that, in the event of any breach of the agreement, it could "kill" any bomb put up by the other...
...whites if he belonged to an organization that barred Negroes. "How would you feel," he asked a group of white religious leaders, "if you had to go before a judge who had a black face and belonged to the Black Muslims?" Did he consider his own activism a breach of clerical ethics? "Christ," he replied, "was not a peaceful, meek type of individual. He caused a great deal of conflict...
...Assumptions. Privity was the traditional idea that there had to be a direct relationship between two parties before there could be an "implied warranty"-or a breach of it. If a man bought a toy that later exploded in his child's face, he had a breach-ofwarranty action only against the toy store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach...
...followed by another six months of "restraint." His plan angered almost everyone, from 23,000 doctors on Britain's health plan, who were required to forgo a 15% salary increase, to the 25,000-member civil service union, whose newspaper called Wilson's measures "a monstrous breach of faith." The powerful Trades Union Congress reluctantly agreed to continue to support Wilson's wage policy, but discontent is so great within its member unions that the T.U.C. endorsement may be overturned at next month's membership convention...