Word: edict
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...maintained a calm attitude about the edict, but warned that "if allowed to stand for the long pull, this restriction on our earnings prospects would inevitably slow down our efforts to provide more and better communications service to the public." Left unsaid was whether the company planned to appeal the decision. Under the FCC order, reductions on interstate and international calls will go into effect...
Anouilh's Creon is intelligent, dignified, and efficient. He didn't seek power, but "once I take on the job, I must do it properly." He is not without some compassion; he even offers to gloss over Antigone's first violation of his edict if she will agree not to repeat it. To him the burial of Polyneices is "meaningless," the people he governs are "featherheaded rabble," and "this whole business is nothing but politics." Carnovsky is marvelously forceful in describing his job ("Kings, my girl, have other things to do than to surrender themselves to their private feelings...
Theatrical companies took one look at that majestic edict and began revamping their repertories. The Epidaurus Festival of Ancient Tragedy discovered that it had no room on the schedule for Euripides' The Suppliants, a story of a free city-state triumphing over tyranny...
...Giles not only lived with that edict but, by putting the plane on BOAC's well-promoted transatlantic service, he helped turn the craft into one of the company's biggest moneymakers. The feat only emboldened buy-British forces, who got added ammunition from the crash of a BOAC-owned 707 on Mount Fuji last March; moreover, that disaster led to the discovery of hairline tail fissures that briefly grounded a number of the company's 21 other 707s. The fact that BOAC has placed new orders for four Boeing 707 freighters and six Boeing 747s...
...last week to try to re-establish some measure of stability. Out of Peking's white-tiled Municipal Party Headquarters trudged hundreds of Red Guards, bearing their bedrolls and belongings. Only recently the chosen shock troops of Mao's purge, the youngsters had been evicted by government edict from their erstwhile headquarters and dormitory. They chucked their possessions into waiting army trucks and were driven out of the city and presumably back to school or work on the farms...