Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speed limit from 10 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h. and scrapping the ordinance regulating bowling alleys (there is not now, nor has there ever been, a bowling alley in Ayrshire). He has even offered to perform a marriage-although he himself could not be married without his father's consent. Mayor Smith is 19 years...
...operation, which cuts a narrow slit through the frontal lobes of the brain, is used to control "hyperactive" children and those who suffer from anxiety, tension, and overt aggressiveness. It can be performed only after the patient gives his consent, and produces a blunting effect on the individual's behavior...
...legislation making London's takeover of Ulster official. Among those who opposed the legislation were the Unionist M.P.s. As a last-minute gesture to Ulster's Protestants, the bill carried an amendment pledging no permanent change in Northern Ireland's status without the consent of its majority...
...creativity and destroying it in the process. They are legion: stories of actors locked into wretched contracts, used physically and emotionally; stories of writers slaving over their pictures, only to have autocratic stars change the sweated and bled dialogue on whim, backed up by the studio's full consent; stories of directors's painstakingly crafted films cut and reassembled so as to be unrecognizable. A great cry of "Cheat!" hovers in the dusty...
...reminded the committee that the basic crisis in the priesthood is over authority. No longer is that authority oppressive, insisted Greeley, because no one pays enough attention for it to be oppressive. Rather, the problem is "a collapse of confidence, credibility and consensus." Greeley noted that "priests do not consent to the teaching of the official church on the necessity of celibacy, on birth control and on divorce." They will not "acknowledge that Humanae Vitae was a legitimate and appropriate use of authority at least as far as birth control goes, nor will they attempt to impose its requirements...