Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from disintegrating. It has a staff of 250-more than that of the Republican and Democratic national committees combined-at its Belmont, Mass., headquarters and at regional offices in New York, Chicago, Washington, Dallas and Los Angeles. Some 75 full-time field coordinators and 1,100 section leaders direct the society's chapters throughout the U.S. And though John Rousselot, the former California Congressman who serves as the Birchers' public relations director, admits that the growth in membership has slowed down, the society is still attracting new members. It officially claims a membership of just under...
Still, in spite of direct government intervention, not all the sprawl appeared to be reconnected. Before the workers walked out, two federal conciliation boards had recommended an 18% wage increase, 8% of it payable this year and 10% more next year. Summoning Parliament to debate the crisis, Prime Minister Lester Pearson's Liberal government sought legislation that would authorize only the 8% increase. With an eye on Canada's increasing inflation, the government proposed that railroads and unions bargain out any remaining raise between themselves. The strikers would have none of that, and Parliament soon approved the entire...
...transaction, Rolls-Royce also acquired a holding company called Bristol Aeroplane and, through that, shares of three airframe manufacturers, including 20% of British Aircraft Corp. But since it does not choose to go into direct competition with the aircraft builders who are its steady customers, Rolls-Royce plans to sell these interests-possibly to the British government...
...make about 60,000 FHA and VA mortgage loans of less than $15,000 on extra easy terms. It was not the favoritism that bothered the President. His worry was that half the $1 billion would come from his emergency funds and the other half from a direct raid on the Treasury, thus adding to the federal deficit. Congress provided the other $3.76 billion by authorizing the Treasury to buy $110 million more of Fannie Mae preferred stock (also deficit inflating) and by raising the agency's authority to borrow private money from ten to 15 times the value...
Privity seemed to bar the suit: the dead daughter had had no direct connection with either the altimeter maker or Lockheed, the airplane manufacturer. Even so, the New York Court of Appeals ruled in 1963 that Mrs. Goldberg could sue Lockheed, though not the altimeter maker, thus conspicuously dispensing with privity. (Ironically, Mrs. Goldberg decided not to sue Lockheed, simply settled out of court with American Airlines for some $10,000.) In the Goldberg case, relaxing the privity requirement also imposed "strict liability" on the manufacturer. Under this principle, the plaintiff is not obliged to show that the manufacturer lacked...