Word: edict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...minor leaguers will be compelled to take the tests, though cocaine is not a drug generally associated with smaller salaries. At that, urine sampling is common if not routine in the bush leagues already. The Hagerstown Suns, Baltimore's Class A farmhands, thought it hilarious that the commissioner's edict fell on the day of their regular checkup. "We'll standardize the tests, though," says Ueberroth, whose Olympic experience assures him that the results are dependable. Maybe, like helmets in hockey, the tests will become such a matter of course in the minors that they will hardly be noticed...
...media scrutiny would have been unthinkable for those two discreet representatives of Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Smiley and James Bond. The formerly anonymous head of Britain's MI5 counterintelligence agency, Sir John Jones, 62, was doubtless shocked to find his picture, partly blotted out by government edict, in London's Sunday Times. A few days later, a national television audience got an unprecedented look at MI5's internal operations in a controversial documentary. In short, last week the lid was blown off Britain's venerable intelligence establishment. The reason, according to Liberal Party Leader David Steel: "The secret...
...agree to off-the-record arrangements, particularly in campaign coverage. The New York Times, which did not publicly challenge Mondale's rules during the primaries, helped force the change for the general-election campaign. Said Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "We cannot accept a blanket off-the-record edict on the coverage of a presidential candidate." CBS News President Edward Joyce last week informed his correspondents that he will review all existing arrangements. Said a CBS spokesman: "We will evaluate each candidate's request separately, and our policy will vary...
During the often stormy relationship between science and religion, no other event has proved so troublesome as the Roman Catholic Church's denunciation of Galileo Galilei. In 1633, at the age of 69, the noted Italian scientist was judged by the Inquisition to have violated a church edict against espousing the controversial Copernican view that the sun, not the earth, was at the center of the universe. For the last nine years of his life, Galileo lived under house arrest...
...that handicapped infants would receive proper medical care even if their parents or physicians were willing to let them die. In May 1982, the department informed the nation's 5,800 hospitals that they could lose federal funding if they withheld treatment or nourishment from handicapped infants. This edict was followed by a tougher regulation requiring hospitals to post large signs in public places bearing the inscription "Discriminatory failure to feed or care for handicapped infants in this facility is prohibited by federal law." The posters provided the number of a 24-hour, toll-free hotline for anonymous informers...