Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The legalistic strategy held good for a while. For two years Richard Levy, the union's attorney, ran up against the stone wall of Harvard's formidable briefs, and in early 1976 the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accepted Harvard's argument. But later that year...
The seeming paradox of the two-bit thief who destroyed one of America's heroic figures is certain to tantalize imaginative minds forever. Ray grew up in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., in an impoverished, quarreling family that in his early years struggled to survive. His father at...
Neumann's advocates persisted, and they finally got a hearing with Pope Benedict XV and a board of Cardinals in 1921. Just a few hours before that meeting, the main opponent of Neumann's canonization collapsed and died in a barber's chair. Benedict subsequently designated Neumann...
Although it didn't stop the recombinant DNA research, the city council's action is important as a precedent for citizen control over scientific work. By stepping in and demanding a say in Cambridge labs' activities, Vellucci and other Cambridge citizens raised the question of community control over scientific work...
That was more like an Emerson Lake & Palmer reception. From the start, ELP has known how to get attention: their opening set at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, the group's first major gig, was announced by the roar of two cannons. But the fireworks that have made...