Word: consent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purse string. The superannuated but insatiably lustful Lady Wishfort (Jessica Tandy) controls a fortune and has an itch for the philanderer Mirabel (Jeremy Brett). He, in turn, has fallen in love with her niece Millamant (Maggie Smith) and schemes to blackmail Lady Wishfort in order to secure her consent to his marriage to Millamant. That is just about what happens...
...hospital births should know that they can give birth at home, assisted by a trained midwife. They should know that sometimes doctors order hysterectomies for convenience and that if a patient insists on it, sometimes her uterus can be saved. They should think twice before signing a blanket consent form before breast surgery...
...there are some grounds for "becoming a little more encouraged" about its ability to begin soon acting again like a normally functioning corporation. Among the reasons: the recent addition of four new outside directors, giving outsiders ten of the 17 seats on the board, and the signing of a consent decree that settles a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against the company and clears Lockheed to hold a long-overdue annual shareholders' meeting some time this summer. Now, says Haack, "it is important to ask: What exactly is the company's problem? It's not a lack...
...remained vague last night on exactly how much detail was actually supplied by Kissinger or with his consent...
Senate leaders agreed to introduce S. Res. 411 because, as Mansfield said, the Senate should claim "its traditional privilege that information secured by employees of the Senate pursuant to their official duties may not be revealed without the consent of the Senate. Having supplied the information relevant to the use of the frank, the Senate should resist any further intrusion in the operations of the Senate and individual Senate offices," Mansfield said...