Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But before the committees consider the cases, admissions officials draw up "target figures" for each section of the country. Some regions cover several states while others include only a few private schools like Andover and Exeter. The officials use the preliminary ratings of the applicants to judge the quality of...
There is a precedent of sorts for this arrangement. Since 1971, the Federal Power Commission has allowed interstate pipeline companies to borrow money, raise rates to consumers to pay interest and other fund-raising costs, then relend the cash to gas producers at no interest as an inducement to develop...
Ominous Precedent. At week's end the big unanswered question was whether Egypt would go ahead with its threat and demand the removal of the U.N. troops in the Sinai. The whole problem of ending the mandate, as one Israeli diplomat in Jerusalem put it, is "a plate of...
The U.S. unsuccessfully tried to block, and then delay the Bonn-Brasilia deal. Washington argued that because a full cycle complex had never been sold to any nonnuclear nation, West Germany would be setting a dangerous precedent that could only increase the chance of nuclear proliferation. So far, only the...
First Federal began the experiment in January 1974, shortly after the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S and Ls, allowed them to set up the terminals. But First Federal quickly ran into legal trouble. In what became an important test case, the Nebraska attorney general contended that state...