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...Canadian Supreme Court agreed. In its ruling, the court said that Trudeau could ask for the B.N.A. Act. But it also ruled that any prior tinkering with the act would flout unwritten constitutional tradition unless it went hand in hand with "at least a substantial measure of provincial consent...
...Monday, a letter from Riesman appeared in the Globe stating CANI had used his name without his consent, thereby exploiting it, and that he favored affirmative action policies for academic hiring that are applied "thoughtfully and with specific aim" on a case-by-case basis...
...British policy in Northern Ireland-to try to keep it in the United Kingdom by general consent-has not worked, is not working and will not work," the newspaper declared. Echoing a recent speech by former Prime Minister James Callaghan, it suggested that the six counties of Ulster become an independent nation, enjoying economic subsidies and military protection from Britain. To prevent the Protestants, who outnumber Catholics 1 million to 500,000, from abusing their majority status, as they did before Northern Ireland's civil rights movement erupted in 1968, both Callaghan and the Sunday Times proposed a bill...
Once a federal worker receives a dismissal notice, he normally has 30 days to appeal it to his employing agency. With the consent of the Office of Personnel Management, the FAA reduced the response time to seven days. If a controller can show that he was fired unfairly (proving, for example, that he was harassed by fellow strikers), he will be taken back aboard. If the FAA rules against him, however, he then has 20 days to file an appeal before the Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal arbitration agency. If the board affirms the firing, a controller may still...
...opponent in the playoffs. If the Yankees, say, preferred to play Milwaukee, they could conceivably ease up on the Brewers in the regular season. Though no American League owners voted against the plan, the National League, which requires a three-fourths approval by its members, barely gave its consent, 9 to 3. Some purists lamented that the maneuver robbed the lovely game of its season-long rhythms, as if a mile-long race was stopped at the half-mile mark, then resumed a week later. "They made a mockery of the game," said Duane Wolfe, a fan from Columbia...