Word: fiat
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...congress, working through the days and half the nights, drew to a close, Italian workers brought votive offerings to the leaders on the dais-sacks of flour and rice for the congress' kitchen, an electric iron, a bicycle, a motorcycle, a Fiat car with headlights blazing. Most educational was a toy consisting of three tiny trucks on rails; one was labeled "reaction," and moved only backwards, the second was labeled "conservatism" and did not move at all, and the third was labeled "Socialism and United Peace Front" and zoomed merrily forward...
Salarino: Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wracked on the narrow seas; the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very dangerous fiat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried...
BERN DIBNER New York City Fiat...
...final bill would take Government off the side of labor in labor disputes and put it back in the role of mediator. It would not break Big Labor's monopoly, but it would force Big Labor to recruit its members by persuasion rather than by Government fiat. It would not put any further economic risk into strikes, but it would make it more difficult to call them. It would try, by legal means, to make labor responsible-which it had not been under the free-&-easy Wagner...
...study the history of the United Steel Workers for an example of what a mature union, working with a cooperative management, can accomplish. The process of collective bargaining, conducted with the very minimum of government supervision, can produce more stable and peaceful industrial relations than can result from Congressional fiat...