Word: ironclad
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...supports the food security system, it will probably insist on ironclad limitations preventing the reserves from being used for anything but emergency relief. Moreover, the U.S. will want all nations, including the Soviet Union and China, to share in the cost of maintaining the stockpile...
...help their friends (personally as well as politically, it seems) and to confound their adversaries. It is an old, old game and the public often loses. Isn't it time to change the rules? We cannot make our leaders take a vow of poverty. But we can make ironclad restrictions preventing a candidate or public official from using his own money for any political or public purpose. The next clause should prevent one officeholder from "assisting" another. Let them a11 behave like paupers...
Nonetheless, Nixon did gain a great deal in having the burden of prosecution lifted. As many Watergate defendants can testify, the astonishing costs of high-level legal defense are themselves a punishment. Sources close to Jaworski's office report that the conspiracy case against Nixon was virtually "ironclad" and conviction was almost a certainty. Being pronounced guilty by a jury would clearly have been an additional, if justifiable humiliation for Nixon. So Nixon does benefit greatly from Ford's generosity. But the absence of any admission of criminal guilt by Nixon and the granting to him of practical control over...
...want to risk a confrontation over prices. And while France has been warming toward the ECG since the election of Valêry Giscard d'Estaing, and even quietly participating in some of the group's projects, it still refuses to join. Though far from ironclad, the agreement indicates that unity among the world's main oil consumers is more than a pipe dream...
Ever since the typographers' contract with the papers expired in March 1973, both sides have been haggling over the introduction of automated typesetting technology, which is now widely used by papers across the country. Powers has insisted on higher wage increases than those won by eight other unions, ironclad job security, and greater union jurisdiction over the new equipment than the publishers are offering. To add bite to these demands, Powers aimed a "coordinated action" at the Daily News in mid-April. Printers were ordered to work at different speeds: "normal, slow and very slow." This tactic played havoc...