Word: consent
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...founders' generation had moral absolutes by which to judge themselves and their fellow men? True, to some extent. The nation's shapers possessed as a gift from their own ancestors a sense of a divine moral covenant. Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop called it "a mutuall consent through a specially overruleing providence." Virginia's John Rolfe saw the colonists as "a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God ..." for their "errand into the wilderness." The covenant helped them measure vice and virtue...
...been interpreted as not applying to links between the boards of banks and nonbanking firms. Now the Justice Department is saying that it does. To the defendants, this sudden new interpretation of the law seems very tenuous and unwarranted, and they intend to fight. Prudential refused to sign a consent order, and no company plans to fire its shared directors...
...Administrative Board decided last week that it is "not proper" to provide in the Freshman Register students' addresses without their consent, although if they wish students could indicate that information by listing it, Whitlock said...
...changing in South Africa, even though the government's policies are not. Although all black political groups were banned after the 1960 Sharpevill massacre, more than 50,000 African workers were involved last year in work stoppages at 120 factories and organizations. Unless an African group receives prior consent from the government to strike, action is treated as a rebellion against the government, and the workers are disbanded accordingly. At least 130 black miners were killed last year by soldiers brought in to break up strikes...
...Constitution provides only that the Senate shall advise and consent on the President's conduct of foreign affairs, but it is not easy for Congress thus to restrict itself. Lately, to an extraordinary degree, Congress has tried to take a hand not merely in the setting of goals, or the examination of Administration policy, but in the tactical conduct of foreign affairs. The results have been alarming...