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Word: overturning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty- by a simple majority vote at any time during a meeting- could overturn any procedural ruling of the Docket Committee...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Faculty Meeting Approves Docket Committee System | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...talks will focus on "strategic weapons." which the Administration has so far refused to define. Presumably, they include the new weapons systems whose deployment threatens to overturn the once stable "balance of terror." The most prominent of these systems is the MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle). Fitted to the majority of existing Minuteman and Poseidon missiles, MIRV would give the U. S. capacity to launch some 8000 nuclear warheads instead of the present 1700. Without an increase in quantity, the same number of missiles could individually pack up to nine additional warheads aimed at different targets. Faced with this...

Author: By Thomas Geochegan, | Title: Armanents An Ounce of SALT | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

...Corporation normally rubber stamps the recommendations of any department in hiring policy. But the Stauder case has been exceptional, and the Corporationcould easily interpret any large minority vote against Stauder as a mandate for the Corporation to overturn the department's decision...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Hurdles Face Stauder In Bid for Rehiring | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

...Deputy, Rocard plans to work inside an Establishment that he would like to overturn. That is a role spurned by many New Leftists in favor of instant revolution, but it is not new for Rocard. Son of Physicist Yves Rocard, one of the developers of France's atom bomb, he graduated from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration and entered government service as an in-specteur des finances, one of the elite corps of officials who supervise state spending. It is a position that normally opens the door to the highest echelons of the government and big business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Eternal Non | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Cambridge City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin said last night that Leen had dismissed a writ of mandamus petitioned by members of the Peace and Freedom Party and the Cambridge Housing convention. The writ asked the court to overturn a ruling by the Cambridge Election Commission that the rent control bill is illegal and cannot appear on the ballot...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Middlesex Superior Court Rules Against City Rent Referendum | 10/2/1969 | See Source »

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