Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barrientos Ortuno at the L.B.J. ranch and played host to ambassadors from 20 Latin countries at San Antonio's HemisFair, itself a symbol of inter-American solidarity. The Administration hoped that the little summit in San Salvador would serve the practical purpose of revitalizing the floundering Central American Common Market. The five isthmus Presidents will discuss ways of hurdling the barriers dividing them, and Johnson's presence, a tangible symbol of U.S. interest, might help them along...
...well-to-do prisoners are ever executed. "During my experience as Governor of Ohio," testified Michael V. DiSalle, now chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty, "I found that the men in death row had one thing in common: they were penniless." In his four years as Governor, DiSalle passed final judgment on twelve men, six of whom went to the chair. The burden of their deaths, which still weighs on him, helps to explain the fall-off in the number of executions. For while judges and juries continue to sentence men to death...
...will be tantamount to a total freeze on imports. Italy, for example, has sold at least 30% more appliances in France so far this year than it did in all of 1967-with the result that it has already exceeded the new French levels. Indeed, France's five Common Market partners, which last year accounted for 43.4% of the country's imports, stand to suffer the most from the quotas...
...trade, it was known simply as "Fiber Y." Even at the press preview, Du Pont took no chances of leaking the process before it hits the market at year's end. Six models wearing Qiana garments were escorted by armed guards to prevent any overanxious competitor from the common practice of snipping a sample swatch...
...Paine-were the first of the guerrillas. In the latter part of the 18th century, these Dissenters argued that the only "absolute and inalienable" rights were human rights, not property rights. Bringing theology and politics into coincidence, they established conscience-the "inner light"-as the divine right of the common man. In the 19th century, Lynd says, the doctrine was assimilated into the American main stream: "Property was no longer the ark of the covenant. It was recognized to be not a natural right but a social convention...