Word: consulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a nearby office. Recalls Low: "Everybody in the line of command above me in NASA seemed to be there. They asked me to take over management of Apollo. I probably would have liked some time to think about it, but since anyone I might have wanted to consult was already there in the room, there was no point in waiting. I said 'Yes, sir,' and went to work...
...probably unfortunate that students thought the only way to bring the issue to the surface was to try to listen in on the Faculty discussion, but this simply shows how little the Faculty and the Administration felt pressed to consult students on an issue of fundamental importance to them. Incidentally, it is doubtful whether a moral issue, such as the "right" to train militarily on a campus for the purpose of post-graduate killing, can be decided by a referendum or any other democratic procedure. How valid would a favorable German vote to exterminate the Jews have been...
...spinster, who claimed that God had invested her with supernatural powers, was summoned by Prince Bernhard to work her miracles on the young and partially blind Princess Maria Christina. The ministrations failed, and in 1950 Prince Bernhard ordered the faith healer from the palace-though Queen Juliana continued to consult her and allowed her to have meetings on Queen Mother Wilhelmina's estate. Rumor held Miss Hofmans responsible for a growing rift between Bernhard and Juliana, and when the stories got into print in 1956, they stirred a storm that ended only when the palace announced that "the Queen...
...HEARS 50 cases in a morning, and they are all decided in the eyes. He does not take notes, does not consult the law books in front of him. He draws the defendant in with his look, calls on his 50 years of legal experience, all the thousands and thousands of evil men he must have seen in his life--the pimps and whores, the murderers and car thieves, the dope addicts and pickpockets, the larsonists, shoplifters, rapists -- he remembers all these and the wisdom in the eyes decides: "guilty, six months at the state farm"; "guilty, one year...
...group has no legislative power, said Gilman, but provides a chance for students and faculty to consult together. The five faculty members then report back to the department with suggestions...