Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody might say in the middle of a rape-case discussion, 'I think the central question here is the same problem we faced in that antitrust case a few minutes ago: Was there consent?' It doesn't seem too funny now, but it gets a big laugh at the time...
...supposed to exchange technology and share plants. Amid rumors of boardroom squabbles, Citroën plans to sell additional stock, but Fiat General Manager Umberto Agnelli says that Fiat will buy none of it. As in the Dunlop-Pirelli alliance, neither side can move without the other's consent. Says Agnelli: "Our objectives are very ambitious-to produce the automobile of the future for a worldwide market." Citroën, he adds, has "failed to follow these objectives...
Waging a full scale campaign to recruit him, the coaches from Columbia got DeMars's consent to apply. However, a history teacher -- the local radical of Classical High -- encouraged DeMars to look into Harvard...
...reason is that any trade deal granting Russia most-favored-nation status will require congressional consent. As Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who heads the hardening congressional opposition to expand trade with the Soviets, said last week, "I do not see how any Senator or Congressman could vote for new trade concessions for the Soviet Union at a time when the Russians are trading in human lives. The ransoming of Soviet Jews is one Soviet export all decent men must absolutely refuse to accept." The Administration is also troubled. Although doing business with unpalatable regimes is no novelty in the U.S., continued...
...insists that "where the sexual conjugation of man and woman is concerned, familiarity breeds consent." At a coed dorm at the University of Maryland recently, boys poured out of girls' rooms in droves when a fire alarm sounded in the middle of the night. At Bryn Mawr, one student explains: "When a boy and girl have been going together for a while, one of them drags his mattress into the other's room." A new kind of study problem has recently been brought to a college psychiatrist: what to do if your roommate's girl friend parades around your room...