Word: consultant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-year congressional investigation of the industry by the late Senator Estes Kefauver and the scandal of thalidomide caused birth defects have led Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration broader powers to police the research, manufacture and testing of drugs. Previously, drug companies were not required to consult the FDA on a new drug until they were ready for final market clearance. Now the FDA supervises every step of testing, and the companies complain that it costs extra time and money to get a drug approved...
...President is about as valuable as a cow's fifth teat," John Nance Carner declared with some feeling over twenty years ago. Today that statement may draw a laugh but surely not acquiescence. When national magazines run features like "The President's Heart: A Blunt Appraisal," and political writers consult actuarial tables, it is not an overstatement that the selection of a Democratic Vice Presidential candidate has a critical importance...
...taken into custody by Chicago police. Under intensive questioning he confessed to complicity in the slaying of his brother-in-law. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for first-degree murder. Escobedo appealed on the grounds that the police had refused his requests to allow him to consult his lawyer during the interrogation and that his confession had not been voluntary. The Illinois Supreme Court agreed that the confession was involuntary and reversed his conviction; then the state asked for a rehearing, persuaded the court to reverse itself and uphold the sentence...
...conviction. In last year's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision, the court held that every defendant in a state or federal criminal trial is entitled to counsel. In Danny's case, the court extended the Gideon principle and ruled that a person is entitled to consult with counsel as soon as an investigation makes him a prime suspect...
Quickening. Mrs. Eddy passed on, as Christian Scientists put it, in 1910, but her spirit looms heavily over the church. Christian Science still affirms her central belief that evil-including physical illness-can be conquered through faith and understanding, although members are free to consult doctors if they want to, as Mrs. Eddy herself did. Along with the Bible, her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, is regarded as divine revelation, but there is never any theological debate in the church about how it should be interpreted. Christian Scientists feel that there is no need...