Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justices Black and Harlan were the court's intellectual pillars, sustaining reputations for judicial integrity, dignity and tight reasoning through some of the court's most turbulent years. Combining half a century of service on the bench, they cannot be replaced by any pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach Douglas, and Nixon's unsuccessful efforts to elevate two lesser jurists, Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, the court is in need...
...product of eight months' work by 1971 Yale Law Graduates Barbara A. Brown, Gail Falk, and Ann E. Freedman and Law Professor Thomas I. Emerson, the article states flatly that "our legal structure will continue to support and command an inferior status for women so long as it permits any differentiation in legal treatment on the basis of sex." That firm judgment is applied even to the subject that many consider the most distressing implication of the amendment: the drafting of women into the military. "When women take part in the military system," say the authors, "they more truly...
...traveler's checks rather than cash. Nearly everywhere, traveler's checks command more favorable rates than cold cash. Reason: dollar bills must be bundled up, insured and shipped back to the U.S. before they can be credited to a money changer's account, but traveler's checks can be credited by computer almost instantly...
...change money on weekdays. An exchange office that does business on weekends can often command virtually any rates that it pleases...
Quinn's fear of failure and the problem with the season have a common source: the same old production executives, like Jack Webb, and the old writers are still in command and timorously repeating and protecting themselves. The formats and scripts, as ever, are beneath the talents of the first-rank performers now appearing on television...