Word: consent
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...have authority, the U.S. Cuban lease agreement of 1903 does not establish Guantánamo as a port of exit for Cuban citizens. Eager to give Castro no legal grounds for demanding annulment of the lease, which runs in perpetuity and can only be terminated by mutual consent, Guantánamo officers carefully explain to Cubans who slip past Castro's guards that they cannot be authorized to travel to the U.S. Result: the Cuban refugees are put to work on the base...
Even the national and international editorial line projected by management is charted under consultation with the editors. Policy is framed at an annual meeting of officers and editors, and the process is democratic, at least in form. "We reach decisions by common consent." says Walker Stone. Scripps-Howard's editor in chief. Based on this common con sent, a group composed of Stone and four editorial writers daily distributes editorials throughout the empire. Editors are expected to run them, and usually do, but no compulsion is involved. Fortnight ago. in segregationist Birmingham, Ala., the Scripps-Howard Post-Herald rejected...
Again, tutors and tutees will work together by mutual consent, and the department will try to match individuals carefully. The actual nature of the instruction will also be left up to the participants again. Members of the Biology...
Terrible Terry. Advise and Consent left the nation dangling in perilous circumstance. The Russians had just landed on the moon and ominously summoned the U.S. to Geneva for a conference. The death of the President had thrust command upon Harley M. Hudson, the harmless nincompoop of a Vice President...
...strength of Advise and Consent was Drury's narrative skill, which played off character against character in sharply focused scenes, and the sharp insider's insight into Washington and the U.S. Senate that provided much of the book's fascination. In A Shade of Difference onetime U.N. Correspondent Drury fails to make the U.N. come alive in the same crackling way, and often mires his story in mawkish melodrama and details so fine that they manage to be tedious rather than interesting. Maybe the U.N. is that way, and Author Drury could not help himself...