Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minister's resistance has produced one of those classic confrontations between conscience and the forces of law and order. Although the prosecutors are embarrassed by McCrackin's acts, they have argued in court that simply to release him would "destroy the foundation and value of giving a judge authority to compel testimony...
...headquarters at a girls' school in Tehran, obviously hoped to isolate Bakhtiar and force his resignation. Until the army announced its neutrality, Bakhtiar had insisted that any transfer of power be done in accordance with the 1906 constitution, which had become something of a symbol of order to the military. The collapse of the Prime Minister's government, however, made that issue academic...
...after a briefing by Szilard and Wigner he agreed to write a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him to the possibility that the Nazis might try to make an atomic bomb. That letter is popularly credited (though its precise effect is unclear) with helping to persuade Roosevelt to order up the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic weapons...
Panelists discussing the obstacles black business managers encounter said yesterday that racism in the business world is very subtle and that blacks often must be more competent than whites in order to gain equal respect in managerial positions...
Davis said in testimony before the Boston Rent Control Board in 1977 that Clifford's purchases of condominiums in a Boston apartment building were arranged in order to refinance the building...