Word: preemption
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...punishment which the enemy's nuclear missiles can inflict on one's armed forces--the troops, their command, and their logistic support--is potentially so devastating that no commander can consider deploying them for combat until and unless this threat has been substantially lifted. This, of course, entails preemption, and its literature leaves no doubt that the Soviet Union intends massively to preempt the instant the leadership has arrived at the conclusion that war is unavoidable. In their view, a nuclear first strike plays in modern warfare a role comparable to that performed by rapid mobilization before 1914: the laggard...
...Harvard's fight is hardly over. The Washington rumor-mills indicate that a new bill, soon to be introduced to the Senate by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), will not contain a federal preemption clause. And so it looks like Harvard's lobbying experts will have to gear up for even more aggressive efforts...
...sometimes wrecked-marriages by ending once automatic assumptions about woman's place. In the first issue of Ms., New Feminist Gloria Steinem's magazine for the liberated woman, Jane O'Reilly writes of experiencing "a blinding click," a moment of truth that shows men's preemption of a superior role. An O'Reilly example: "In New York last fall, my neighbors-named Jones-had a couple named Smith over for dinner. Mr. Smith kept telling his wife to get up and help Mrs. Jones. Click! Click! Two women radicalized at once." The term Ms. itself...
...specifically "preempted" for Congress the right to rule on cigarette advertising. That was a lucky stroke for the industry, which has been shielded from further action not only on the part of federal agencies but also by a number of state legislatures where antitobacco bills are now pending. The preemption clause will expire on June 30, however, and Congress must then decide where to go from there...
...indicated that in New York alone, Du Mont had quadrupled its daytime audience, even before the star witnesses appeared. Du Mont's ability to function as a public servant was the envy of the networks, but it was the kind of service the big chains, with their high preemption costs and complex affiliate commitments, could ill afford (estimated network carrying cost: more than...