Word: breach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winking at Help. The oil companies must try to keep serving the customers of those refineries or risk being sued for breach of contract. Moreover, Rotterdam's "Europort" is more than twice as big as any other port in the world (the runner-up is not even in Europe, but in Kobe, Japan). Only a few supertankers can be diverted from Rotterdam to Le Havre, the strongest rival port...
...journal rightly divines that both the incumbent in the office and a good many Americans seem to identify the presidency with the country itself. When "we cloak a head of government also with the dignity of a head of state," that person will face "steadily greater temptations to breach the rights of ordinary...
...worked out some particulars of what might be called the Office of the Public Prosecutor General. The P.P.G. would be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for a term of 15 years; he would be funded by Congress and could be dismissed only for a gross breach of duty or for committing a crime. To curb political ambition, he could be barred from subsequently holding any elective federal office...
...officials is so obvious that it has been illegal for federal candidates to accept corporate funds, or for executives to offer them, since the trust-busting days of 1907. Yet the laws forbidding such practices, observes Ashland Oil Inc. Board Chairman Orin E. Atkins, are primarily "honored in the breach." Atkins has reason to know. He heads one of seven major U.S. corporations* that have admitted dipping unlawfully into the company till for contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Last week executives from six of the firms testified before the Senate Watergate committee, providing a rare...
...arguing that only the Executive Branch is empowered to authorize and conduct prosecutions. Dean Roger C. Cramton of the Cornell Law School warned that the measure could lead to another year of court battles before the constitutional question was settled. He recommended that Congress in stead censure Nixon for "breach of faith" in firing Cox and give the President a chance to "resign honorably...