Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, both actions are symbolic. A decision made by the President, without the advice, consent, of even knowledge of Cabinet or Congress, will not be affected by even the most ardent lobbying. The Harvard Corporation is unlikely to take the requested act of civil disobedience of withholding tax dollars from the government. Yet symbols do matter, in so for as they convey the desperation, and the sense of political impotence, felt by the faculty of the Graduate School of Education...
...invitation from Phnom-Penh to attack the Communist bases in Cambodia. The omission meant that Washington was openly violating the Geneva accord of 1954 (which it did not sign but has repeatedly claimed to respect), guaranteeing Cambodian neutrality. Still, there is no doubt that the U.S. obtained tacit consent. Cambodia's Foreign Minister, Yem Sambour, said it all when he registered the government's feeble objection. "In principle," he said with a broad smile, "we must protest the action...
...situation with the University's blue collar and service employees is wholly different. These workers-Buildings and Grounds employees, engineers, food services personnel-are strictly unionized, and all have no-strike clauses in their union contracts. To strike without the union's consent would mean losing their jobs...
...Senators who have suggested that the President did not have the power to make such a decision are just wrong, but on the other hand, the President is wrong if he continues to wage war without the consent of Congress," he said...
...have participated to date, very few have come to trial. We have lost only two cases, and both of these are now on appeal. Fifteen cases have been brought to a successful conclusion by the entry of an injunction or similar court order against the defendant, either by consent of the parties or after trial. The court orders we have secured usually require the defendants not only to stop discrimination but also to take significant affirmative steps to correct the effects of the past, including solicitation of Negroes, advertising in the black press, inclusion of biracial groups in advertising, requiring...