Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another of Frank's mutually beneficial accommodations is his relationship with McGee. Critics of the speaker claim his rule is about as democratic as that of Indira Gandhi (although he will never be threatened by democratic elections), but Frank disagrees. It is "not dictatorship from above, it's regimentation wanted from below. Most members do not have strong views on public policy". he says. McGee is generally open-minded about social issues, although he is a conservative with close ties to the airlines, liquor and racing interests and power companies, and Frank seems to be aware of the benefits...
...India" for successfully holding "the largest democratic elections in history." With his customary Irish hyperbole, Moynihan told reporters, "Nothing that will happen in Washington this year will be as important to America as what happened in New Delhi in the past few days. Political democracy has reasserted its claim on the future of the world...
...months ago, the Family Planning Council declared that "a most favorable climate has been created in the country for the voluntary acceptance" of sterilization. A recent tour of the Indian countryside proved that this claim was wildly untrue. In the village of Pipli in Haryana state, where police enforced a mass sterilization, the menfolk seemed like the inhabitants of a town in a gothic tale who had been stricken by some mysterious pestilence. All nodded in agreement as Gyani Ram, 40, told how he had been forced to undergo a vasectomy, and then was denied a certificate after officials discovered...
...testify about his assets. If the debtor fails to show up, he may be cited for contempt of court and ultimately sent to jail. A lower federal court held the New York procedure unconstitutional. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling, declaring that the debtor should have raised his constitutional claim in the state court. Expanding the doctrine known as "abstention," the court declared that state contempt proceedings, like criminal prosecutions, should be free from federal court interference except in extraordinary circumstances. Justice William J. Brennan Jr. dissented vociferously, saying the court had "embarked on the dangerous course" of condoning widespread...
...people who knew Tumulty (who bears a resemblance to John Barrymore), among them B.D. (Big Director), the actor's adopted son, who has none of the old man's natural talent for performing, and two men who do. It is the old women in the story who claim the greatest attention. They are tart and perceptive, with matching dialogue-not surprising from the man who wrote Born Yesterday and Adam's Rib. "You make me most uneasy," one of them remarks accurately at Kanin's snooping. "You seem detectivy, in a nasty way." Defeated...