Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal funds were used in the development of the device. If so, said Dr. Theodore Cooper, NHI's director, its use was subject to federal guidelines covering human experimentation. He explained that these guidelines stipulate that "if experiments are going to be carried out on man, every effort must be made to ensure that the experiment is safely conceived, that the procedure is done with the informed consent of the patient, and that scientific and ethical matters involved be reviewed by scientists and physicians at the hospital not themselves involved in the experiments...
...consideration were the most recent reapportionments of congressional districts in Missouri and New York. In an effort to satisfy court requirements, Missouri had staked out districts with populations that varied from one another by only 6%. New York had achieved a maximum spread of 14%. By a 6-3 vote, the court found both efforts unsatisfactory...
Strait Path. The one-man, one-vote principle, wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority, requires that the state "make a good-faith effort to achieve precise mathematical equality" and "must justify each variance, no matter how small." Brennan added: "We can see no nonarbitrary way to pick a cutoff point" at which population variances become too small to matter...
...hand, he must avoid all thought of county lines, local traditions, politics, history and economics, so as to achieve the magic formula: one man, one vote." Justice Abe Fortas tended to agree, but he nonetheless concurred in these cases because neither state had made a sufficient "good-faith effort...
...most delicate dilemmas confronting the Nixon Administration is that of reconciling its position as an advocate of free trade with the President's campaign pledge to cut down on textile imports. In an effort to redeem that promise, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans flew to Europe last weekend for two weeks of talks with the U.S.'s major trading partners. Stans goal is to persuade reluctant European countries to agree to voluntary quotas on their textile shipments...