Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputies to deliver the ballots. When the count was in, the government had suffered a stunning defeat. Nearly 100 of Costa e Silva's followers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition. By a margin of 216 to 141, the deputies quashed the government's motion to lift Alves' parliamentary immunity and permit his conviction for "publicly inciting animosity between the armed forces or between these and social class es or institutions." A handful of spectators in the galleries jumped to their feet cheering, then began to sing the national anthem. After a moment...
...white film with electronic color codes so that it will reproduce full-color images. When the coded film passes through a special scanner, the colors are electronically retrieved for viewing on the TV screen. The discovery of this cheap color film is likely to stir a revolution in the motion-picture industry and may someday give every amateur the resources of color-movie photography at drugstore prices...
...motion put forth by Professor Putnam to abolish ROTC in any form from the Harvard University campus. Charles E. Allen Jr. '70 Steven Roose '70 Robert W. Steinberg '69 Norman B. Epstein '71 Martin Hanlon '69 Noelle Caskey '70 David Palmer '70 Wesley E. Profit '69 Tracey R. Lecklider '69 Johnathan D. Ritvo '69 Michael A. Bundy '70 Joan S. Rubin Joe McCune '70 James Kilbreth...
...could have converted the special meeting to an open forum with no votes. They could have allowed the whole Faculty to convene and decide whether or not to waive the closed meeting rule. Professor Michael Walzer told the the students afterwards that he had planned to introduce such a motion. If some one had told that group that before, they might well have voted...
Analyzing data at the University of Western Ontario, Geophysicists Lula Mansinha and Douglas Smylie found that the circular path traced by the North Pole between 1957 and 1968 was actually composed of interrupted arcs that spiraled almost imperceptibly inward. The inward motion, they decided, was an indication that the earth's wobble had begun to decrease for short periods of time. But between each of the arcs comprising the circle there was a break, marking a time when the wobble suddenly increased. Significantly, Mansinha and Smylie reported in Science, nearly all of the breaks occurred at the time...