Word: compeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...client is calling the possibility of illegal wiretapping to the attention of the court," Rabinowitz said yesterday. "The court should not compel her to assist in the commission of a crime...
They added that "investigating our records to determine whether a person has been under any form of government surveillance is a time-consuming process, and we hope the court will not compel us to do this with future witnesses in the grand jury proceedings...
...practical matter, majority-oriented politics will not adequately champion the rights of the individual. The new court may nonetheless force liberals to use politics more vigerously, rather than the judicial process, to press their ideals. What is more, a new conservative standard of intellectual rigor on the court may compel liberals to greater precision of thought on their...
...Heath outlined this gloomy scenario in a recent speech to the House of Commons: "The Soviets may calculate that eventually the sheer disparity of military strength would leave Western Europe with no convincing strategy. Political pressure, shrewdly applied and backed by the threat of greatly superior military force, could compel one of the more exposed members of the alliance to lapse into neutrality. Then a process of disintegration could begin which would lead to the ultimate price, an extension of the Soviet sphere of influence gradually into countries at present members of [NATO], and if possible, to the Atlantic...
...business recovery. To make up for that, corporations should be willing to absorb part of any climb in labor costs. A POLICING BOARD. A review board would police the guidelines. It would have legal power to investigate any wage or price increase; it could subpoena company records and compel union chiefs and corporate executives to testify before the board. Occasionally, it might make an example out of penny-ante violations of the guidelines-say, an egregious price increase by a bakery that, while relatively small, had a local monopoly of bread sales. But for the most part, it would concentrate...