Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter a plucky upper-class Englishman. In the days before the sun set on the British Empire, his ancestors might have rattled a few sabers and issued an edict in the name of the Queen. But Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 42, re-established order in a subtler way. After studying the troubled tribesmen, he launched a program to teach them fishing and chicken and pig farming. That helped restore their self-sufficiency and, equally important, their selfesteem...
...millions of blacks, other minorities and women. Despite a flurry of protest demonstrations by militants, most observers praised the court for a cautious but astute effort at reconciling conflicting forces?but they also foresaw many future conflicts in the actual carrying out of the court's new edict...
That siren song should win some ready listeners. When the big copper producer was forced to divest itself of Peabody Coal by Government edict last June, savvy Wall Street analysts speculated that some or all of the $1.2 billion Kennecott received would be paid in the form of a special dividend. Instead, Chairman Milliken, apparently fearing an unfriendly takeover attempt, paid $66 a share for Carborundum. The rationale: the bigger the company, the more difficult it is to finance a raid. By paying more than twice the book value for a ho-hum company, Milliken let himself in for savage...
This time five clergymen, backed by the New Hampshire American Civil Liberties Union, decided it was time to call a halt. They sued Thomson on the grounds that his edict was unconstitutional, and U.S. District Judge Walter Jay Skinner agreed. Thomson could lower the flags, Skinner ruled, only if he proclaimed a secular reason for doing so. Next day, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit threw out Skinner's injunction. "A great victory," said Thomson, as he ordered all official flags-there are about 100 in the state-to half-staff. Thomson said he would...
That very day Paley ordered staged reverses stopped. But his stern edict has since been relaxed, so that if a Mike Wallace interview now takes place with only one instead of two cameras, Wallace can be photographed afterward asking the same questions again or reacting angrily, moodily or laughingly-so long as these reverses are "made in the presence of the interviewee" or with his consent...