Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months for appliances, from 36 to 30 months for furniture, from 30 to 27 months for autos. Television sets, which most Britons lease rather than buy, will require 32 instead of 20 weeks' advance rent. On top of that, the Bank of England renewed its 1965 edict that total lending by banks and loan companies may rise only 5% above the level of last March...
...chariots and wagons jammed axle-to-axle on the cobblestones. Today it is Fiats and Alfa-Romeos bumper-to-bumper in a jam that reaches maximum autosclerosis in Rome's downtown arteries during the holiday shopping season. Caesar solved the problem in his day by imperial edict, banning carts, wagons, coaches and elephants during daylight hours. Last week Rome was trying the same thing on a smaller scale-and ruefully discovering banning Fiats by fiat to be hardly a Caesarian triumph...
This year, as Vermonters prepared to elect a new legislature under a federal court's reapportionment edict, Democrats naturally expected new triumphs, since their party is strongest in the towns and cities that would be fairly represented in the state assembly for the first time. Lieutenant Governor John...
Negro parents responded to the busing edict with Operation Exodus. They privately arranged to bus 300 of their children out of the Roxbury schools which were doomed to over-crowding and possible double sessions. Residents of Dorchester, West Roxbury, Jamacia Plain, Hyde Park, and Roslindale all got a taste of the real thing, as Negro children began to enroll in their schools...
...American pro-India policy would indicate blindness to the larger issues involved. Pakistan behaved nicely while her infant economy remained in the cradle, but now that she has grown and seeks regional markets, she finds trade with many of her Asian neighbors proscribed by U.S. edict. Although a charter member of SEATO, she finds American troops pouring into Southeast Asia without her consultation or approval. Worst of all, she finds herself dependent upon an annual AID dole which may be snatched away if she does the slightest thing naughty. Pakistan thus represents the case of the fledgling country brought...