Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They had a genuine trial," Berman stated. "They were charged with weakening the Soviet state. But they were allowed to challenge this description of their work. They had counsel and were allowed to present their writings as evidence...
Mostly, however, the presidents influence society and the Government by serving on powerful advisory groups. Within education, for example, 22 university consortiums now direct projects too big for any single school to handle, such as the operation of a nuclear reactor. Other key boards counsel the Government on foreign-aid, education abroad, relations with emerging nations, and poverty programs...
...friends and told them he wanted to study urban problems and automation. "I got back reading lists, guidance, and advice on which professors to seek out and which to avoid," he said. When he got here he enrolled in the speed reading course offered by the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...Court has widely extended the guarantees of the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment in recent years, Congress has made the court's decision in this case more difficult by having refused to include state and local elections in the 24th Amendment. How, asked Virginia's Counsel George D. Gibson, can the court kill the tax in state and local elections when a constitutional amendment was required to kill it in federal elections...
...British Establishment, in fact, he is the perfect Australian: silvery-haired, conservatively tailored, reverential about traditions, plummy in accent, and, above all, delighting in pomp. Sir Robert literally clanks with honors. He is Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Privy Counsellor, Companion of Honour, Queen's Counsel, and three months ago he became the first non-Englishman to be appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, an order that entitles him to fly a blue, yellow and red flag depicting Dover Castle and rates him a 19-gun salute in the five ports for which the order...