Word: fiat
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...name of national security, including committing burglaries. John Mitchell testified blandly that he would have done anything to get Nixon reelected. Such arrogations were piled upon Nixon's massive impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress and upon his claims to the right to make war by fiat, and concealment of how he was conducting that war. It was not perhaps one-man rule, though the atmospherics of Nixon's preWatergate White House often suggested it, at least as told by his subordinates. But it undeniably represented an abuse of presidential power, even given the exigencies of governing...
...here is no command perform ance by author's fiat. The Black Prince is that rarest of novels, one which conveys the texture, the immediacy, the superb improbability of love as it hap pens. The metamorphosis of Bradley from a self-concerned prig into a dancer of the rites of spring does such full justice to the mysteries of the heart, imagination and the groin, as to seem predestined...
Forget about possible talks with President Tito of Yugoslavia, Premier Andreotti of Italy or Chancellor Brandt of West Germany. Put off plans for a big auto deal with Giovanni Agnelli of Fiat...
...Cruz drove down the highway on the way to his plant near Buenos Aires, a green Ford truck suddenly swerved in front of him near a point where four workers were installing a traffic sign. Da Cruz slammed on the brakes and was rammed from behind by a Fiat pickup. The four "workmen" and four men in the Fiat all rushed forward and hustled Da Cruz away. Five days later, just before releasing the 38-year-old Portuguese American near the spot where they had seized him, the kidnapers gave local newspapers a photograph that showed Da Cruz...
Giovanni Agnelli, Fiat; Giuseppe Bertola, Brown, Boveri & Co.; Count Rene Paul Boel, Solvay et Cie.; Willard C. Butcher, Chase Manhattan Corp.; Louis Camu, Banque de Bruxelles; Alain Chevalier, Moet-Hennessy; Dr. F. Wilhelm Christians, Deutsche Bank; Fernand Josef Collin, Kredietbank, N.V.; Dr. Paul Dax, Siemens; Sir Eric Drake, British Petroleum; Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, Electrorail; Nils Foss, F.L. Smidth & Co.; Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, Volvo; Alfred H. Heineken, Heineken, N.V.; Belton K. Johnson, King Ranch; Dr. Konrad...