Word: proceeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials projected a balanced budget, allowing the city to proceed with much needed repairs and widely desired improvements. But a petition drive was underway aimed at construction of a bridge that would cost at least a million dollars. And the Chronicle suspected the railway was behind it: "If the Charles River Railway is to depend on plundering the city treasury as well as the Union road, the people should rise against it and crush it before it gets any larger...
...saying: "Moscow does not believe in words." What is needed is practical action. A constructive stand at the [theater nuclear forces] talks in Geneva would demonstrate a definite intention to pursue better relations. But we absolutely cannot accept the concept of using negotiations to buy time in order to proceed with deployment [of the new medium-range missiles] while all sorts of pretexts are invented to blame the Soviet side [for the delay]. The U.S. should take a very unprejudiced look at relations with us without attempting to stick labels on us all the time...
...abroad and at home, may be placing its destiny in the hands of Britain, evoking the days the empire was spelled with a capital "E." But that is the plausible consequence of the Canadian Supreme Court's recent decision, handed down September 28, which declared that Trudeau can legally proceed with his package of constitutional reforms, although he would violate convention if he did so without the expressed consent of most of the provinces. The ruling, often muddled in its reasoning but typically Canadian in its effort to compromise, in effect vindicated all sides in the contentious constitutional dispute. Everyone...
...bold maverick, vowing to plow ahead with his plans regardless of the opposition. With a comfortable federal majority, he can pass the legislation and then send it on to Britain for what should be routine ratification. The provincial premiers naturally challenged the legality of Trudeau's proposal to proceed unilaterally, and the case naturally fell into the laps of a squirming Supreme Court. In the meantime, Trudeau's opponents--the federal Conservative party and the provincial premiers--started writing letters to British MPs, asking that they refuse to rubber stamp Trudeau's package. Even before the court announced its decision...
...vote of 7-2, however, the courts decided that if Trudeau were to proceed, he would not be violating the letter of the law. As the earnest students who haunt Langdell and Roscoe Pound would say, the bottom legal line is all that counts...