Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases-one in Florida, two in California-depend at least partly on the contention that the death penalty is "cruel and unusual" punishment, which is explicitly barred by the Eighth Amendment. "And the less frequently it occurs," says Wulf, "the more cruel and unusual it becomes." Another argument claims that the death penalty serves no interest of society and is therefore unnecessary punishment in violation of due process of law. In the Florida suit, which seeks to do away with capital punishment on behalf of all 51 men on the state's death row, it is additionally contended that...
...Kerr or James Bryant Conant, Brewster is an outgoing activist and analytical problem-solver who is convinced that innovation and change are the way to save the traditions of Yale. "We have to convince the donor we have something to offer," he says. "I'm sure support will depend on the ability of the institution to excite...
Next year the liaison role will fall to the new Dean, Fred Glimp. "A lot will depend on what Glimp does," Monro commented. "I advise him to make...
...bread and butter issues--steady jobs, higher wages and better working conditions. It will urge laborers to join unions and gain power over their employers as a means to increases in material welfare and higher standards of consumption. The power it urges the new working class to achieve will depend on very different values. The enemy will be the same corporate elite and the exploitive bureaucratic structure, but decisions will relate much more to the quality of life and work, and power will be exercised in accordance with an ethic that consciously rejects the goals of higher consumption and materialistic...
...that could never provide a workable system of government for society on a mass scale. In reply, SDSers allude to control by workers in cooperative factories, and to town meetings. But aside from the question of practicability, the notion has serious weaknesses even in theory. For it appears to depend on an underlying consensus in values and interests that runs directly against the pluralism and freedom which SDSers value so highly. The student radicals believe that meetings should produce a unanimity of viewpoint; yet they also prize a rebellious, strong-willed individualism2