Word: consultation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Security Treaty had tied Japan to the U.S. in perpetuity, had entitled the U.S. to "come to Japan's defense" whether or not Japan so desired. The new treaty was limited to ten years, at which point Japan could refuse to renew it, and pledged the U.S. to "consult" with Japan before reacting militarily to a threat to Japanese or Far Eastern security. Implicitly-and by Japanese interpretation-the new treaty gave the Japanese government a veto power over the kind of weapons the U.S. could maintain in Japan as well as over deployment of Japan-based U.S. forces...
...American people." But given his own turn at the microphone, the visitor was quick to remind his audience that there was a summit meeting coming. "A grave international debate is going to take place in three weeks," said he. "Before joining this debate it is necessary for me to consult with the President of the U.S. ? this dear, illustrious man on whom so much of the survival of the free world depends." De Gaulle seemed almost relieved when the welcome was over, when he was safely in the presidential limousine, rolling smoothly past the kids with their Easter outfits...
...Consultation. At one time Myrick, who is married and has four daughters and a son, actually retired from the insurance business. In 1949 he stepped down from a vice-presidency of the Mutual of New York to help Herbert Hoover, an old friend, enlist public support for the Hoover Commission's recommendations for organizational changes in the Federal Government. When that job was finished, Myrick longed for something else to do, decided to go back to his old sales agency as a consultant. "But," says Myrick, "nobody consults you about insurance. You have to go out and consult them...
Quesada has also been hotly accused of being unnecessarily arbitrary and of failing to consult with the industry before he gavels out his dicta. Recently, he ordered airlines to install weather radar in all planes, had to back down and make an exception of obsolescent planes when some lines raised a ruckus. The Air Line Pilots Association, the exclusive A.F.L.-C.I.O. union (membership: 14,000) led by Militant Pilot Clarence Sayen, is Quesada's most vociferous critic. A.L.P.A.'s latest complaint: Quesada's new ruling requiring mandatory retirement of all transport pilots at 60. The union...
...trial, the Government took only seven days to present its case, arguing that it was illegal for a parent company to consult with subsidiaries on prices. Government lawyers contended that Hines Baker, then president of Humble Oil, talked with Standard of Jersey President Monroe J. Rathbone about a price hike in Louisiana in December 1956, that Rathbone reported the matter to Jersey's executive committee, and that an industrywide boost started soon after. The Government questioned Lion Oil Co. Vice President John E. Howell about a series of phone conversations with top oil-industry executives. Howell explained that...