Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps unwisely, Carter has insisted that both he and the Congress should have their first-year performance in domestic matters judged almost solely on the energy legislation. The tumultuous tone and tactics of the struggle?including a precedent-smashing Senate filibuster and a whip-cracking maneuver by Majority Leader Robert...
City Councilor Saundra Graham, whose community leadership two years ago blocked Harvard's proposal for constructing the Kennedy Library complex on the MBTA yards, says she does not recall a precedent for Cambridge taking Harvard's property by eminent domain. "I really don't want to raise people's hopes...
Washington is of course used to spectacle, but the era of Rostropovich has no precedent, nor has it ever promised so much. For years the capital's music-lovers have felt ignored. The great performers of the world passed through for one-nighters somewhere en route between New York, Chicago...
Regarding this bill, the stupidity of the majority of the members of the Legislature is disturbing but not surprising. I have learned that decision makers, like our group of legislators, evade thinking for themselves by relying on precedents and old residual public feeling. I have learned not to expect well...
So the question is raised, if the homosexuals here respect themselves and recognize their fundamental right to be homosexual, then why are there so many in the closet? The answers to this would probably equal the number responding. One would fear the reaction from our conservative traditional colony here. Another...