Word: carta
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...owned power companies. Castro persists in the cane-burning campaign-a pointless waste of the country's wealth that may well anger many Cubans. Up in the hills, notes one conservative rebel with a mixture of admiration and fear, "he acts like a king before the Magna Carta, sitting under a tree and dispensing justice...
...freer trade, a vital contribution to economic betterment of under-developed nations. In conference rooms and hotel corridors, businessmen vigorously debated a host of other issues that ranged from new investment incentives (see New Ideas for Investment) to German Banker Herman Abs's call for a Magna Carta of investors' rights (see The Capitalist Magna Carta...
...world that things should be done, wherever they can be done, by private enterprise?" This fundamental question was raised by David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, now a consultant to foreign governments on their own development programs. Along with such far-reaching solutions as the Magna Carta of investment capital's rights proposed by Germany's Hermann Abs and the world-investment-guarantee plan proposed by Vice President Richard Nixon, the delegates had some ideas of their own on how to speed private investment. Among them...
...also six signers of the Declaration of Independence-Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Thomas M'Kean and William Paca; and finally the sweeping green of Runnymede Meadow, 20 miles west of London, where the embattled barons prevailed upon King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215 ("To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay, right or justice"), where the great tree of the rule of law, as understood by English-speaking peoples, was planted...
...mean acknowledgment of the fact that there are moral limitations on civil power. We mean that human beings have rights, as human beings, which are superior to what may be thought to be the rights of the state or of society. It is the truth exemplified in the Magna Carta and in the American Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights...