Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because annoyance is subjective, says Manhattan Lawyer George A. Spater in the Michigan Law Review, courts usually insist on tangible harm before they do anything about noise. Typically, the plaintiff recovers only if noise decreases the value of his property. Recovery for personal injury is rare, says Spater; recovery because of mere sensitivity to noise is impossible...
Carried with Credit Cards. Some schools used to refuse a body if any surgery at all−even as routine as an appendectomy−had ever been performed on it. Now most insist only that the body be intact (not mutilated, as after many accidents). Post-mortem subjects and commercially embalmed bodies are also unsuitable. The schools themselves use special embalming techniques for preservation. Most schools have developed what they call "bequeathal kits" of legally valid forms: several issue a wallet card (see cut), to be carried at all times along with the driver's license and credit cards...
Last week Johnson refused to accept jurisdiction. Ruled the judge: "There is no immunity conferred by our Constitution and laws of the United States to those individuals who insist upon practicing civil disobedience under the guise of demonstrating or protesting for 'civil rights.' The philosophy that a person may-if his cause is labeled 'civil rights' or 'states' rights'-determine for himself what laws and court decisions are morally right or wrong and either obey or refuse to obey them according to his own determination, is a philosophy that is foreign...
...clothed in righteousness is a match for all the hosts of error," said Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, perched on a table, to reporters. "And I am pursuing sinners who insist on persisting in their error...
...Clauses. The three striking unions-out of eight in all-want multiple benefits, including a change in vacations and the right of captains to continue belonging to unions. Involved in a jealous rivalry with each other-six unions sometimes represent various crewmen of a single ship-they also insist on me-too reopening clauses in order to renegotiate for raises or crew increases that have been conceded to other unions. The biggest current issue is the number of crewmen who will henceforth man automated ships. The U.S. now has eleven mechanized freighters, and many more are planned; they require...