Word: breach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, Jobert committed a startling breach of diplomatic etiquette by publicly endorsing Democratic criticism of Nixon's energy policy. He quoted approvingly from a speech by an unnamed U.S. Senator who was readily identifiable as Edmund Muskie of Maine. Jobert forced the conferees to rewrite their communique many times. The final version carried six asterisks to note that France disagreed with much of it. He also made it clear that France would not join the coordinating group...
...that the miners are overworked and underpaid on a base pay of $57 a week. Because wages are not high enough to keep an adequate work force, the miners must work overtime to keep the country from collapse. There has been no strike, no walkout. "I am dead against breaching Stage III, but at the same time I'm dead against forcing British industry to its knees," declared Sir Raymond Brookes, chairman of the powerful Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds engineering group. "If the rest of the unions can give firm guarantees that they will not attempt to pour through...
Bickford's report involves the Indian College, a gift made to Harvard in the 1650's for the housing of Indian scholars. An Indian group at Harvard contends that the gift was a charitable trust, and that Harvard's use of the building was a breach of trust. They feel the University has an enforceable legal obligation to Indian students. The University does not agree...
...late December, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, rejected Bickford's proposal that Harvard initiate court action to determine whether a breach of trust existed...
...other goods are manufactured. Permitting their prices to go up would surely create a ripple of new inflation that would spread through many other industries. Such a surge would add to an inflation rate that even Eternal Optimist Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, concedes may breach...