Word: fiat
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...would you feel if you were teaching the only course in the entire catalogue which has been made unavailable for General Education requirements by fiat?" he said...
...displayed an uncompromising intelligence wedded to a prancing narrative talent. In Bloodshed and Three Novellas, she skeptically examines her own gifts. What business has a Jew writing stories in an alien tongue, she wonders: "English is a Christian language. When I write English, I live in Christendom." Given the fiat of the Second Commandment against false idols, she questions a bit disingenuously whether a Jew should write stories...
Nordin said that many students resent what they see as "a fiat statement from the faculty regarding what they can and cannot do with the medical education...
...work and the dean's carefully devised system. Rosovsky rejected this notion ("I hope you don't have an army view of the way things work") and insists that, although he is chairman of the coordinating panel, each of its members has an equal voice. And to act by fiat, Rosovsky adds, would only be to doom his efforts to failure: "This faculty is self-governing in educational matters, unless you can convince them a proposal makes sense...
ITALY notes improvements in several key industries, notably autos, leading Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli to say: "We could perhaps conclude that we are coming out of the most acute phase of the recession." But overall industrial output is down 12% from 1974, and 1.2 million workers are jobless; another 800,000 are on short time. Industrialists fear, too, that an improving climate may encourage wage demands and strikes that could abort the recovery...