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...Christian Morals. Though the state legislature sided with the Overseers, the Corporation would not concede any of its power, and won out. Since that time, according to a 1978 report by the University's Committee on the Structure and Function of the Overseers, the Board has had "a formal 'consent' or 'allowance' role in certain fairly infrequent, major policy determinations...
When China was accused by the U.S. last summer of selling Iran Silkworm missiles that threatened shipping in the Persian Gulf, officials in Beijing entered the diplomatic equivalent of a consent decree. They denied having made such sales but promised to make none in the future. The same officials are saying even less about another recently disclosed missile deal: the sale to Saudi Arabia of an undisclosed number of intermediate-range CSS-2 missiles capable of reaching virtually anywhere in the Middle East, including Israel...
Since it appears in your own book, you know that 70 to 75 percent of the controversies concerning the representation of employees involve no real doubt concerning the bargaining unit and that such cases are almost invariably handled informally through a consent agreement between the union and the employer. "[M]ost of the problems that arise in determining the eligibility of employees to vote are matters of details," you wrote on pages...
...HUCTW bargaining unit was established in earlier litigation; any problem that arises in determining the eligibility of individual employees should be resolved through consent. There is absolutely no valid reason for delay...
...common consent, this has been a sorry campaign. With Super Tuesday's passing this week, it is dawning on the public that instead of being turned off by all the candidates, it now must recognize that one among them may be the next President. As the campaign enters this new phase, one reassuring fact goes unrecognized: how well the press is doing at showing the campaign as it actually...