Word: fiat
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...what I'm doing," she assured one rally. Her husband Conrad is introduced as the "future first gentleman." Such is the intensity of her emotions on the stump that she told an audience that as President she would sometimes be forced to bypass Congress and rule by "executive fiat...
...rebellion or alienation that leads to pot use as much as the life-style of certain groups-and lifestyle and patterns of social behavior cannot readily be changed by legal fiat...
...science" need to be debunked, though we must be careful not to reject science as a method for improving the quality of human existence. Science and human values can, indeed, work in symbiosis. Putting social responsibility in science is an immense reform and cannot be accomplished by mere administrative fiat at the professional level. We must start now by making some changes in our educational system. Students of science should never be separated from consciousness of the social consequences their work entails...
...goods, like computers and machine tools. Aside from natural gas and metals, however, they have little of compelling interest to offer American customers. Russian mining officials hope to entice American firms to help them exploit some of the huge Siberian copper deposits. But a joint venture-perhaps modeled after Fiat's partnership with Russia in the Togliatti auto plant-would require as much as $4 billion in American investment capital...
...daisies on the Fiat are new, Clean. With fresh air bubbles, Although the candidate has lost his child crusaders and his legion of reporters and some of his financers and a lot of his liberals, he still has a few believers covering their cars with his daisies. But while it may be nostalgic, it's not enough. The ranks of his faithful have been depleted. Most would rather live in the present...