Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute of Politics panel. For those who haven't purged themselves of student government, the Institute of Politics may be a good outlet. The place is full of people bound for Washington, summer or otherwise...
...asking you, what do you say is 'wrongdoing'? I don't know." That was a telling admission for a man who made his career as a lawyer and rose to the highest office in the land. It also indicated why, although a three-judge panel will hear arguments in the dispute next month, the suit will most probably not be finally resolved until at least...
...Garrity postponed school opening by one week, to Sept. 8, to give the school committee more time to act. Last week, with busing procedures still in chaos, the judge summoned committee members to his courtroom and sat them down with representatives of the Citywide Coordinating Council, a citizens' panel set up by Garrity as a watchdog over Phase Two. "The best way I know to frustrate the plan is delay, delay, delay, so that a shambles exists on opening day," Garrity lectured. "That's not going to happen...
Convinced that "earthquake prediction is a fact at the present time," and worried about the effect of such forecasts, particularly in U.S. cities, the National Academy of Sciences this week released a massive study entitled "Earthquake Prediction and Public Policy." Prepared by a panel of experts headed by U.C.L.A. Sociologist Ralph Turner, the study takes strong issue with the politicians and the few scientists who believe that earthquake predictions and warnings would cause panic and economic paralysis, thus resulting in more harm than the tremors themselves. Forecasting would clearly save lives, the panel states, and that is the "highest priority...
...companies would reap from the increases. President Ford proposed a windfall-profits tax as part of his program for gradual decontrol. Congress has not yet acted, but Al Ullman, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said last week that if all controls on oil prices lapse his panel would devote the first two weeks of September to writing a bill and bringing it to the floor...