Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panel will consider ways to temper the inflationary impact of higher wages. By some industry estimates, labor costs account for at least 75% of the price of all U.S. goods. Besides publicizing wage or price increases that seem out of line, the commission will probably delve into the operations of many industries. It will, insists one high-ranking Administration official, be a live and sharp-toothed animal. "It's a rabbit now," he says, "but it could turn into a tiger...
...chiefs are under attack on a third front as well. Reduction of U.S. military commitments abroad is bound to alter their policymaking role and lessen their importance. Nor is a study, now being conducted by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, likely to increase their significance. Surveying the operations of the entire Department of Defense, the panelists are concerned about whether the chiefs can meet almost daily on policy matters and still run their services. The panel may recommend that the chiefs be relieved of one of their jobs...
...scheduled an opening-day public forum at which consumer groups were invited to air their complaints. The tactic failed. Immediately after the call to order, 30 to 40 dissidents took over the platform and microphones, elected their own chairman, and turned the forum into a farce. While the panel doctors looked on as helpless captives, the forum dispatched a delegation-consisting of spokesmen from the Medical Committee for Human Rights, the National Welfare Rights Organization and several Women's Liberation groups-to hand up an inflamed indictment of the A.M.A. to the House of Delegates. The band was turned...
...Conference of Catholic Bishops announced that the process, which often took several years, and sometimes as many as 20, can now be completed under the new procedures in less than eight months. To help clear clogged tribunal dockets, and for other "grave reasons," a single judge rather than a panel of three may now be permitted to hear a case. Some petitioners will no longer have to face double jeopardy. If the facts of a case are clear enough after the first decision, the church may now waive the hitherto mandatory requirement that a second trial, in another court, confirm...
...temperature in the tank to rise to 1000° F. and damaging the Teflon insulation on the wires. This led to the arcing that occurred during the mission. Why did the Cape Kennedy technicians have to resort to this untried procedure for emptying the tank? Because, said the panel, the tiny tube through which oxygen is fed in and extracted had probably been shaken loose when the tank was dropped two inches at the North American plant in Downey, Calif...