Word: fiat
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...beat-up Fiat parked in fron the Signet Society is covered with McCarthy "daisy" stickers. The stickers were designed by a Los Angeles campaign staffer in 1968 and appeared a few weeks before the California primary. They are flower shaped, five or six inches in diameter, with a blue and white "McCarthy" in the center...
...many parts of Western Europe, unemployment is creeping up while steel production is in a decline and demand for export-import financing is flagging. Italy is in the deepest trouble. Plagued by strikes and absenteeism, industrial production is running 3% lower than last year, while prices are 5% higher. Fiat, the automaker, has placed 8,000 workers on a short week; tiremaking Pirelli is offering workers in the Milan area cash gifts to quit. Zanussi, Italy's biggest electric-appliance manufacturer, plans to lay off 9,420 by year's end. Refrigerator producers reckon that the price...
...seeking to marry Baker, now a third-year law student and president of the university's student body. The circuit court concluded that McConnell had insisted on "the right to pursue an activist role in implementing his unconventional ideas," and ruled that "we know of no constitutional fiat or binding principle of decisional law which requires an employer to accede to such extravagant demands...
...time . . . that prior restraint has been sought by the Federal Government." As for the broadcasting industry, Walter Cronkite of CBS charged that because it is beholden to the Government for its right to exist, "it is at the mercy of politicians and bureaucrats. Its freedom has been curtailed by fiat, by assumption and by intimidation and harassment." But perhaps the most eloquent plea for First Amendment freedoms came from Ervin himself...
...will debate for months what he announced to the world in a few minutes. Out of their discussions may emerge more permanent prescriptions for the plight of the dollar abroad and the blight of inflation at home than anyone-even a Presiden-could impose by any kind of personal fiat...