Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quite beyond the specific constitutional issue, Nixon's tenure has increasingly been marked by an extraordinary assertion of presidential powers. John Ehrlichman told the Ervin committee that the President can do almost anything in the name of national security, including committing burglaries. John Mitchell testified blandly that he would...
Last month the General Accounting Office charged the Agriculture Department with "weakness in managing" the sale. Last week the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee took up the grain sales in hearings marked by heated exchanges between Chairman Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. Jackson called the grain...
The fun and games marked the start of the biggest of this year's labor-management confrontations-U.A.W. negotiations with Detroit's Big Three for a new wage contract covering 700,000 auto workers before the old pact expires on Sept. 14. The workers seem to be...
He explained that a center for foreign students, the International Student Association, did exist two years ago, but closed after local colleges stopped supporting it. With its closing, there was a marked "need for a place for foreign students to get together and do things," Quah said.
Last month, shortly after the drug was banned because of undesirable side effects, two nurses paid a visit to the shabby apartment where the Relfs live on $150 monthly welfare payments. Lonnie Relf, 56, a former field hand who has been unemployed since he was lamed in an auto accident...