Word: discusses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunting "fired persistent questions" about the arrest at Patrolman Woodrow Curtis as he grappled with David O. Jones. This attracted a crowd, and Curtis told Bunting to leave. Bunting refused, and was then placed under arrest. Bunting could not be reached, and Curtis, reached at his home, refused to discuss the matter...
...Chief Justice must lead the court more by persuasion than command. When he agrees with the majority, he assigns the writing of decisions, thus giving himself at least some control over the outcome of the case. He gives his views first in the private conferences in which the Justices discuss cases and, to some extent, determines what cases the court will consider. He also commands the prestige of his office, which can be used to help preserve unity or prevent disunity from becoming bitter and destructive...
Still, the informal break last week lasted 42 minutes, a long time to discuss even the glories of France's climate, cuisine and countryside. In fact, the coffee breaks represent the opening of secret talks between the North Vietnamese and the Americans-and, as such, clear the way for the next stage in negotiations...
When the students finally decided to speak out, it was university reform they wanted to discuss, but France sent its police, not its thinkers, to deal with them. The student catalogue of complaints is larger and more depressing than any list of grievances that U.S. students can compile. The Paris student seeking an advanced degree, such as the doctoral d'état (comparable to the American Ph.D.), faces six years of relentless scholastic competition as he fights his way, first to the diplome universitaire d'études littéraires (roughly equivalent to a B.A.), then through...
...opened his own bank, T. Mellon & Sons. Tall, thin and austere as a Grant Wood painting, he wore high starched collars when lesser men had long since moved to sack suits and button-down collars, read Greek philosophers for pleasure, but calculatingly lunched at the Duquesne Club to discuss the mortgage market...