Word: fiat
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...nearly two decades, the name Fiat has been synonymous with the indomitable personality of Giovanni Agnelli (TIME cover, Jan. 17, 1969), the son of Fiat's founder and the president who transformed the huge industrial firm into a major multinational empire. Thus it has come as something of a shock to many Italians recently to learn that there is yet another Agnelli in their future. In the 13 months since he was named to Fiat's No. 2 job, taking over nearly all of the corporation's day-today operations, Younger Brother Umberto Agnelli, 38, has stepped...
...President reigns in solitary splendor, the marvel is the man himself. The President's post-election campaign of self-assertion rolls on unchecked. Last week there still was no explanation of just why he had unleashed the massive B-52 bombing attack on North Viet Nam. His fiat to reorganize the Government caught the men elevated to super positions unawares and stunned the strata of bureaucracy below. Congress looked on in ignorance like the rest of the country. All through the nation Nixon was gaining the reputation of some kind of grim fiscal reaper as the depth and extent...
...enormous power on the COLC's Dunlop. He has frank contempt for "magic numbers"; he once called the idea that all wage boosts should conform to a single numerical standard "hogwash." He prefers to weigh each case individually and relies on head-knocking by private negotiation rather than fiat by issuing orders...
...great debates over slavery that preceded the Civil War were staged in the Senate rather than the House, which was fragmented over the issue. Yet even Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated slaves by fiat, sometimes deferred to Capitol Hill. Said he: "Congress should originate, as well as perfect, its measures without external bias...
...Association of Theater Owners and Union, the National Association of Theater Owners and the Mass. cable operators) realized what practical form and direction the Commission's power could take. The Commission does not now--nor will it probably ever--have the power to rule on content and usage by fiat, as the idealist would have it do. While the industry remains small and barely manageable, the Commission has a chance to force a franchise set-up which will make the cable accessible to the public rather than the special interests...