Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest loser stands to be American Express. Though the question of how much responsibility it has for the debts of its subsidiary is open to legal dispute, President Howard L. Clark bravely declared that the company is "morally bound to do everything it can." Claims against Amexco, filed by 43 companies, total more than $100 million. But the claimants have been squabbling among themselves over who should get how much. Lately a group of them called for a package settlement of $80 million-$60 million from Amexco and $20 million from the insurance companies covering it against fraud (American Express...
...threatening an all-out offensive against the mines unless the unions agree to abide by Barrientos' reforms. "We are going to solve the mine problem," said Barrientos, "even if the methods cannot be popular. Sending armed forces into communities in Bolivia is nothing extraordinary. The military is the legal instrument of the government...
...decisive legal change came in 1958, when Italy's Constitutional Court overruled the arrest of a Pentecostal minister who had turned his apartment into a chapel. Nowadays, Protestants face nothing worse than occasional bureaucratic delays in getting permission to build churches, and the expectable problems of being a minority. A Baptist missionary tells of converting an entire family of Catholics except for one daughter, who feared that nobody in the village would marry her if she left the Catholic Church...
...first things the American learns is that the working habits and foibles of European workers are not easily tampered with. The Europeans expect-and get-longer vacations (four weeks in France) and more legal holidays (14 in Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food...
Richard E. Pipes, professor of History, who gives the course on Imperial Russian history, will be on sabbatical for the whole year, Samuel E. Thorne, professor of Legal History, will be gone during the Full term, and John V, Kelleher, professor of Modern Irish Literature and History, who also gives courses in the English and Celtic departments, will take the Spring Term...