Word: laws
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...professor of history with a wry wit promulgated his theory of the work-time syndrome: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." That shrewd and accurate observation became known as Parkinson's Law, after its founder, C. Northcote Parkinson, 59. Now comes "Mrs. Parkinson's Law," aimed at the harried housewife who hopes to keep both her sanity and her spouse: "Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind," goes the latest Parkinson principle. What all that bafflegab means, says Parkinson...
Convinced that he has done what he set out to do in Berkeley, Sullivan last month announced that he will leave in January to accept a new challenge. He will become state education commissioner for Massachusetts, where a new law requiring racial balance in the schools is meeting some resistance. Most of the opposition is in Boston, which may soon face Sullivan's prodding question-if two-way bussing works in Berkeley, why not there as well...
...sport beads or let his hair hang to his collar. Instead, Fink wears the badge of a deputy inspector in the New York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement at them, Fink stands all but alone as a policeman who has learned how to handle the discontented young...
...play, they are not always dark and unknown. A great play is flooded by its author with inner light, and it is usually some jaded director who drags the drama off on some footless side path and leaves it mired and mangled. The text is not sacred Mosaic law, but it is more than a pretext for whimsical directorial pranks. Peter Brook is not that kind of man. He looks before he makes his exciting leaps. He wants a theater of passion and directs his plays to that end. At his best, he is flamboyantly faithful to his own finest...
...loophole lies in the 1956 Bank Holding Company Act, which prohibits corporations controlling more than 25% of two or more banks from engaging in anything but banking. The law does not cover companies owning only one bank. Today's trend, therefore, is for a commercial bank to reorganize itself as a "one-bank holding company," with the bank becoming a subsidiary. Bank stockholders simply swap their shares for those of the new parent firm...