Word: impetuses
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...more effective and mass demonstrations more dramatic, the U.S. is witnessing a marked resurgence of petitions. With Chartist fervor, miles of signatures are collected each year on hand-drawn circulars passed from neighbor to neighbor, in organized mail campaigns, or to adorn elaborate newspaper ads. The greatest impetus to the petition business has been Viet Nam, but other, infinitely varied causes range from civic issues, such as the restoration of trolleys on New Orleans' Canal Street, to campus concerns, such as student demands at Berkeley that the university hospital provide birth control devices on request...
Pioneered by two California Supreme Court decisions in 1956 and 1961, the "open file" concept of criminal trials received considerable impetus in 1963 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brady v. Maryland that before any verdict, the prosecutor is constitutionally compelled to disclose all information "favorable" to the defendant. Pretrial discovery, which is now being actively considered by New Jersey's high court, took one of its biggest steps forward in federal courts last July under the Supreme Court's sweeping revision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which had previously entitled federal defendants to discover...
Firm Ship. This alone, however, does not necessarily signify a blossoming of new works for the operatic stage, the few Barbers and Brittens notwithstanding. Few composers today find much encouragement to write opera. Some feel that the Met is not providing the impetus that it should in this direction, but that is one subject on which Bing cannot be moved. The Met's job, he says, is like that of a museum, "to put old masterpieces in new frames." He is convinced that opera can survive on its classical foundation without a strong infusion of contemporary music and subject...
...firmly set upon what one Administration official calls "a paved road to the presidency." If he establishes an acceptable legislative record in the Senate, if he avoids a backlash of enmity from Lyndon Johnson's supporters within his party, if his popularity proves more than ephemeral, then the impetus that Bobby describes as "this thing" could well carry him all the way along the paved road. This all adds up to a lot of "ifs," and Bobby is reluctant to dwell on them...
Largely because bias excluded Catholics from many social clubs, the Knights of Columbus was started in 1882, and since then has often taken a militant attitude toward non-Catholics. This old-fashioned militancy has gradually been cooling off on both sides, but the real impetus toward cooperation came from Vatican...