Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt himself, by his plan to change the constitution of the Fifth Republic so that future French Presidents would be elected by popular vote rather than by a privileged electorate of 80,000 parliamentarians and municipal and departmental officials. To bring about this change, De Gaulle decided to bypass Parliament and take the issue directly to the people in a referendum scheduled...
Whisky& Willowy Women. Subject to approval by the Bank of England and the French Ministry of Finance-which so far have declined any public comment on the sale-the 166-year-old British firm plans to put approximately $3,000,000 into Chateau Latour precisely in order to bypass middlemen. Under the driving leadership of George E. McWatters, 40, a fourth-generation descendant of the first John Harvey, Harvey's since World War II has been buttoning up its sources of supply. The company has taken over two prime producers of Portuguese port, has a working agreement with...
...long-range development. On a visit to Washington last month, Alves argued that he needed help right now; his starving people were easy prey for the militant, Communist-led Peasant Leagues sweeping Brazil's northeastern states. Returning home, Alves visited President Joao Goulart, eventually won his agreement to bypass federal channels. Moscoso himself was convinced after a few days in the impoverished backlands. Said Alves "We are starting...
...committee chairmen were dead set against the Administration's determination to bypass the finance committee-on the theory that the same thing might later happen to them. More significantly, the Senators resented being used in a hopeless cause to give the President a political issue. The Senators also recognized something else that Kennedy did not: medicare is not so overwhelmingly popular an issue as the President seems to believe. Letters ran heavily against medicare after Kennedy's appearance in Madison Square Garden, and a Gallup poll showed that its popular support had dropped from 55% last March...
Randall advises the business executive to unwind himself from his cocoon. He should make himself available to news men, "not just the grand interview at the time of the annual meeting, but continuously." When he has strong feelings on public affairs, he should bypass company lobbyists or trade organizations and make his personal views known directly to Congressmen or Cabinet officers. He should speak frequently at colleges and universities, and subject himself to round tables where "questions will be searching but honest-the sort his staff will never...