Word: edict
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...last time I checked up on Pete, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien had just barred him from conversing with all Cavalier employees. Stepien resorted to such measures after Franklin ridiculed the new team fight song, comparing it to a beer-hall polka. After the edict, Franklin took time off from his regular "Pigskin Pete" feature to call Stepien a "pathological liar" and threaten court action. And you're still listening to Clif and Claf...
...Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), forced to give up his political career by a Vatican edict earlier this year, continued to stump for Frank as his successor, pointedly ignoring the Medeiros letter...
...tourists in my group turned out to have wrestled with the problem of the U.S. boycott. Some had emotional reasons for deciding to come-a string of consecutive Olympics going back to Mexico or Japan (they wore tinkling commemorative pins on their hats to prove it) that no presidential edict (even if they thought well of it) was going to break. A trial lawyer from Washington, D.C., told me that he was in Moscow because he had never seen an Olympics and he could not bear the idea of waiting four years to go to Los Angeles...
...anger vibrated through the White House corridors when Joan Kennedy archly told a reporter that she was better equipped than Rosalynn for life in the White House because she was a "sophisticated lady" and held a master's degree in education. But in obedience to the presidential edict, the slur went unanswered...
...devices as heat pumps, reflective film on windows and costly refinements of lighting systems. (At present, a late-staying worker at Manhattan's World Trade Center who does not have a lamp at his desk must switch on a quarter-acre of lights.) More important, the Federal Government's edict lowering thermostats to 65° F has left windowless inner rooms relatively tolerable, while prized corner offices, symbolic of executive success, sometimes are Siberian. An executive, whose drafty 26th-floor office commands a splendid view of northern Manhattan and a stretch of the Hudson, sat glaring at her thermometer last week...