Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiations and not imposed from above." Feinsinger would introduce what he calls a "neutral," appointed by both sides, who would audit negotiations as a detached and dispassionate observer, making nonbinding recommendations on request. In the event of a bargaining deadlock, the neutral could break it, again by common consent, with a "final and binding arbitration award." Adds Feinsinger: "Since this procedure would be the product of mutual agreement, there would be an incentive to make it work...
...spokesman for the Minneapolis-based association said it hopes to indict the President for defrauding the public in the 1964 elections, and involving the United States in a war without the direct consent of Congress...
Johnson, meanwhile, kept repeating that he would begin a conference "tomorrow" if possible and that he would consent to whatever initial agenda the other side might propose. The President also invited Thant to Washington this week to "thank him very much for another try." In fact, the Administration was fiercely yet helplessly exasperated by Hanoi's skillful use of inconclusive peace hints as a psychological counterweight to its bloody assaults on South Viet Nam. Furthermore, Communist propagandists in South Viet Nam assiduously spread the word that the U.S. was conniving with the North to sell out the Saigon regime...
...reason the Rockefeller delegates waited so long was a legal question. The New Hampshire Supreme Court cleared that up on February 9 when it ruled that a state committee for a write-in candidate could conduct a campaign and expend funds for the candidate without his consent...
...from his mind. But as automen quickly recognized, this was hardly what Henry Ford sought. What counts is the disciplined insight Ford most can use: Knudsen's ingrained intimacy with the concepts and techniques (from cost control to dealer organization) that have long made General Motors, by common consent of both friends and foes, one of the world's best-managed corporations...