Word: edict
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Without a certain esprit de corps, any military unit would be useless in battle. the NROTC edict requiring all members of the Unit to join Taffrail Club was undoubtedly issued in the hope of building up Naval morale and unity in the College...
...edict was issued cutting off from the payroll all University personnel other than Yard cops, ghost-lecturers and those persons with offices in Conant or Pusey Halls. This was justified on the stand that unless a drastic cut took place somewhere in the budget, the $800,000,000 endowment fund might not continue to rise. Many felt it was a good thing that, as a consequence of the move, at last the grading system could be done away with...
...Milwaukee, "when the district attorney . . . attempted to ban three well-known novels by personal edict ... he finally withdrew his ban under heavy fire from the Milwaukee Journal and citizens of the city...
...deny that there is authority in the United States to abolish segregation," Howe explained. He said that he felt a Court edict would only give rise to political delaying tactics and possible social upheaval in the South, however...
...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...