Word: laws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prices. Despite statutory limits on prices and profits at the retail level for gasoline, the agency's own regulators admit that as much as half of the gasoline sold today is priced higher than the law permits. With only 400 inspectors to police 225,000 gasoline retail outlets, enforcement has been futile. This week the department will increase the legal profits retailers can collect. Thus stations, some of which have closed down in protest, may be able to raise prices another nickel a gallon...
...Chairman Church asked if,the chiefs were prepared to "give us your honest advice," even if it differed from their civilian bosses in the Administration. Replied Air Force General Jones: "Yes, sir. We pledge to do so." Indeed, when the chiefs appear before congressional committees, they are allowed by law to ignore instructions of their civilian bosses and speak their consciences...
...hard Yankee fan, having to spend the summer in Beantown is about as bad as Oliver Barrett III having to attend law school in New Haven...
...second-longest role of Cassius, Brutus' brother-in-law who originates the murder plot, a bearded Harris Yulin makes his position more plausible and less villainous than we usually see--and perhaps it should be said that there are no thorough villains in this play, except for the gang that lynches a poor poet merely for having the same name as one of the conspirators...
...Maass candidly, "were either too indifferent or too scared to act with defiance." There were about 200,000 Jews in Vienna at the time who were, explains Molden in Exploding Star, "a powerful concentration of gifted, ambitious . . . hard-working people." Their domination of the press, the theater, medicine and law "materially contributed to the spread of anti-Semitism in Austria...