Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suddenness of Carter's move, and they were known to have feared originally that there might be a secret deal with Peking that could pit Washington against Moscow. Giscard stressed that the new U.S. policy on China must not interfere with negotiations with the Soviets. After the matter had been discussed, there was a consensus that the new China policy would not damage U.S. relations with the U.S.S.R. or draw the West into the Sino-Soviet conflict...
...waited for the bus that would take me up Cambridge St. to Harvard Square, it began to snow--a sudden burst, the kind that blows fiendishly hard little snow crystals into your face no matter how deeply you hide your head in the hood of your coat...
...present, only the minority subcommittee screens minority applicants, and the full committee usually follows its recommendations as a matter of course...
...suspect what the matter comes down to depends upon whether one is willing to allow photographers as wide and loose a license as we give certain writers and painters, or whether, as is the case with me, one's pleasure from photographs such as Meyerowitz's is scratched by what may be an impertinent moral prickling. But one should finally trust and retrieve from this argument the photographs themselves: the best of them -- two pictures of clothes-lines, a glass-topped table, a couple of porches, and one, in the Harcus Krakow gallery, which is merely a bare clean plane...
Intentional delay by lawyers is a different matter. Judges are beginning to use their power to penalize foot-dragging on legitimate discovery demands, and to protect parties from unreasonable ones. In a recent case, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. stalled the State of Ohio in its attempts to get at some records in Switzerland. A federal judge ordered the company to pay Ohio $60,000 in legal costs. Another judge, citing "flagrant bad faith," simply threw out the antitrust claim of New York City's Metropolitan Hockey Club Inc. (later Golden Blades) after it failed to respond...