Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baum is not alone. With the implicit consent of Julius Cardinal DÖpfner, a committee of moral theologians in the archdiocese of Munich drew up a message of guidance for marriage lecturers on the birth-control problem. Their recommendation was that couples who practice contraception "not lightly and habitually but rather as a regrettable emergency solution" could receive Holy Communion...
...leader in Djakarta's potent and demonstration-happy student organization, KAMI, warned that if no new Cabinet is named, "You shall see. We shall not just sit here," and Brigadier General Ibnu Subroto, army chief of information, agreed: "I hope that the President will give his consent. We have to deal with angry young men." On one point, at least, the students and the generals were in accord. Subroto announced that the new regime would be "leftist to the end of time, against colonialism, capitalism and all forms of neocolonialism and imperialism...
...spin off three chains as well as a dairy and a bakery; it is still investigating the Kroger Co. for 42 chain-store acquisitions dating all the way back to 1928. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., by far the largest food chain, twelve years ago signed a consent decree ending buying practices that had led to extensive investigation and Justice Department antitrust charges, but second-ranked Safeway is so far untouched...
...plead for approval of the League of Nations. Soon, other countries came wearily to recognize that any treaty concluded with the U.S. President or Secretary of State was, as Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. put it later, "still inchoate, a mere project for a treaty, until the consent of the Senate has been given to it." In general, this practice has been less hampering to U.S. diplomacy than might have been expected. Over the years, the Senate has considered some 1,500 treaties, rejected or refused to go along with the President in only about one out of ten. On occasion...
...education comes from many other sources now. But it retains considerable influence on national opinion, and Professor James MacGregor Burns, for one, believes that this influence is more important than its old formal power in the checks-and-balances system. "What the President wants today is the advice and consent of the American people," says Burns. "The Senate is important to any President in how it affects this advice and consent...