Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranging from $50 to $300 to some 754 convicted campus rebels. Nearly half of them informed Crittenden that they would not accept a probationary condition that he also imposed: to refrain from any more illegal demonstrations for up to two years. The judge responded with tougher sentences, generally the option of paying higher fines or going to jail for longer terms. Among those refusing probation was Free Speech Movement Leader Mario Savio, who haughtily told the court that he could not observe the ban because "with American politics presently in the hands of the morally and intellectually bankrupt, rebellion...
...soft on Communism-softer than the Republicans had been. If the Cuban exile brigade were disbanded, it was argued, they would fan out all over Latin America, and explain how the U.S. "had lost its nerve" in the fight against Communism. "Having created the brigade as an option," says Schlesinger, "the CIA now presented its use against Cuba as a necessity." Later, Kennedy told Schlesinger: "I probably made a mistake in keeping Allen Dulles on. It's not that Dulles is not a man of great ability. He is. But I have never worked with him and therefore...
...Bihar, thus is not subject to international controls over its allotment. It is also the first non-nuclear power to have a diffusion plant actually producing weapons-grade fissionable material, at Trombay, near Bombay. The government of Lal Bahadur Shastri has made clear that it intends to retain an option on the bomb, and has indicated that it will not sign any non-proliferation treaty unless Red China, among other nations, agrees to scrap its atomic armory. India's security and prestige have been badly dented by the Chinese invasion in 1962 and Peking's recent tests; build...
...host of exemptions. Italian restaurateurs, for instance, are given the privilege of employing Italian chefs. Baptist clergymen may go right on hiring Baptist sextons. In one instance, Title VII authorizes reverse discrimination. The act gives employers ranging from Minnesota wild-rice farmers to New Mexico electronics manufacturers the option of hiring only American Indians...
...comes up for the next draft-an older and presumably wiser man. Unlike the pro football draft, where a player retains some competitive bargaining power through rival leagues, he can either like it or lump it. And where a pro football player can play out a year's option and then be free to deal for himself, the baseball draft could theoretically bind a player to one team for life...