Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter-day Rome," Paisley sneered to his followers before marching off to the jail, "once again dips her hands in the blood of saints, and is drunk with the blood of saints." The saint would return, Paisley promised, and even run for Parliament. Within hours, fresh signs blossomed on buildings and sidewalks: "Paisley for Prime Minister." And by week's end, angry mobs of Protestants had taken to the streets, smashing windows, overturning cars, and battling police...
Italians were equally bitter when their highly rated team was knocked out of the race by the tournament's lowest-rated contenders, the North Koreans. Rome's Corriere Dello Sport ran a one-word headline: SHAME! In Parliament, a neo-Fascist deputy pointed to Italy's defeat as the sign that a new Duce was needed to rescue the nation's fading honor...
...weeks ago, Gordon's successor as Finance Minister, Mitchell Sharp, added bite to that bark by introducing a bill in Parliament that would have the effect of prohibiting any Canadian bank with more than 25% foreign ownership from having more than $200 million in assets. If it is passed, which is far from certain, the bill would immediately apply to only one institution: the Mercantile Bank of Canada (assets: $222 million), which is wholly owned by New York's First National City Bank. For the future, another provision of the legislation would also effectively bar any other foreign...
...three main speakers will include Manfred Abelein, member of parliament. Federal Republic of Germany; Jiri Chlumsky, professor of Felltical Economy, Prages School of Politics, Csechoslovakia; and Johnnes Hollander, Employer's Federation, The Hages, Netherlands...
...Denmark, which wags have described as a constitutional monarchy in which the legislative power rests with the Parliament and the executive power with the breweries, the government goes along with the split. It ought to. Danish beer is taxed at home more heavily than any other beer in Europe, and last year, before the profits were divided, the government took its own share of $90 million. Above all, the friendly competition has helped Carlsberg and Tuborg build up the exports that the country vitally needs...